English vocabulary on Lunar New Year

English vocabulary on Lunar New Year

Lunar New Year is coming, do you know all the vocabulary about food and festivals of Tet?

If not, let's learn togetherVocabulary related to Lunar New Yearyou!

1. English vocabulary about Tet activities

Pocket your Lunar New Year vocabulary set right away. Below you can use it right away when Tet comes.

  • Lunar/ Lunisolar calendar

  • New Year’s Eve

  • Visit relatives and friends

  • Superstitious

  • Decorate the house

  • Lunar New Year

  • Before New Year’s Eve

  • New Year’s wishes: Happy New Year to each other

  • Go to pagoda to pray: Go to the temple to pray for blessings

  • Expel evil: Drive away evil spirits

  • Worship the ancestors

  • Dress up

  • Sweep the floor

  • Play cards

  • Flower market

  • To return to hometown

  • To first foot

English vocabulary on Lunar New Year

2. English vocabulary about Tet dishes

  • Banquet: party/feast

  • Betel: betel and areca

  • Coconut

  • Chung Cake/ Square glutinous rice cake

  • Dried bamboo shoots

  • Dried candied fruits

  • Fatty pork

  • Five – fruit tray

  • Jellied meat

  • Lean pork paste

  • Mango

  • Mung beans

  • Pawpaw (papaya)

  • Pickled onion

  • Pickled small leeks

  • Pig trotters stewed with dried bamboo shoots: Bamboo shoot soup stewed with pork leg

  • Pig trotters

  • Roasted watermelon seeds

  • Sticky rice

  • Watermelon

English vocabulary on Lunar New Year

3. English vocabulary about Tet symbols

  • Altar

  • Apricot blossom

  • Calligraphy pictures

  • Chrysanthemum

  • Firecrackers

  • Fireworks

  • First caller: People storm the ground

  • Flowers: Types of flowers/plants

  • Incense

  • Kumquat tree

  • Lucky Money

  • Marigold

  • Orchid

  • Paperwhite

  • Parallel

  • Peach blossom

  • Red Envelope: Lucky money envelope

  • Ritual

  • Taboo

  • The kitchen god

  • The New Year tree

English vocabulary on Lunar New Year

Above is some English vocabulary about Lunar New YearHope it will be useful for you in the upcoming Tet holiday. Remember to memorize and don't forget to practice with your friends and relatives! Wish you all good study!