Celebrate Tet Like Our Great Grandparents
Have you ever wondered how our great grandparents celebrated Lunar new year? Why did they affix a seal on paper at the beginning of the year; and what is the meaning of a rite called “Tru tich”? To welcome the Monkey Year 2016, we are glad to release our first video “Celebrate Tet Like Our Great Grandparents”. The video is the very first fruit of labor of the members who, despite their inexperience, have tried their best to find sources and collect patterns from real life in order to reconstitute visually the Vietnamese Tet during the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. However, traditional practices vary according to region and period; therefore, what are portrayed in the clip are simply the common archetypes of celebrations, which may not demonstrate the variety of the way Vietnamese people celebrate Tet. We will appreciate your giving us reviews and constructive criticism, so that together, we can create a more diversified perspective on our great grandparents’ practices in Tet. We hope this video will help brighten up your Tet!
