Celebrations for the traditional Lunar New Year, known locally as Tet, of the Mong ethnic minority in Moc Chau in the northern mountainous province of Son La starts on November 26 of the lunar calendar, a month ahead of the country's official Tet festival.
Celebrations for the traditional Lunar New Year, known locally as Tet, of the Mong ethnic minority in Moc Chau in the northern mountainous province of Son La starts on November 26 of the lunar calendar, a month ahead of the country’s official Tet festival.
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| During the final days of the lunar month people spend time to clean their houses in order to sweep away the ‘bad things’ from the past year to welcome in a new year full of ‘good thing". |
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| Then local people make Banh day (rice cake). This cake is an indispensable dish of the Mong people and plays just as an important role as Chung cake does for the Kinh (Viet) people during the Tet. |
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| In the traditional beliefs of the Mong people, the round cake symbolizes both the sun and the moon, which forms the origin of human beings and all things on earth. |
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(Source: VOV)
