Hanoians offer incense at a temple on the occasion of the Lunar New Year. Photo: Philip Jones Griffiths |
Children on the streets of Hanoi on Tet holiday. Photo: David Alan Harvey |
The scene of New Year's Day at the Temple of Literature. Photo: Tanya Pisarchuk (Russia) |
A calligrapher writes parallel sentences for Tet. Photo: Albert Kahn French Museum |
Souvenir sellers on the banks of Hoan Kiem Lake and Ngoc Son Temple in 1994. Photo: Bruno Barbey |
The atmosphere of Tet. Photo: Philip Jones Griffiths |
A pho (Vietnamese noodle) shop on Tet holiday outside Ngoc Son temple. Photo: Bruno Barbey |
People happily returned home from Nghi Tam flower market after shopping for Tet 1973. Photo: Werner Schulze |
Hanoi in Tet 1994: young people take pictures. Photo: Bruno Barbey |
A corner of Hanoi's old quarter during Tet 1994. Photo: Bruno Barbey |
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The 100-year-old incense-making village in Saigon before Tet
Although the time is ripe for selling incense sticks, people do not see many of them in Le Minh Xuan incense-making village in HCM City.
Making Kitchen God figurines for Tet in Thua Thien-Hue
In the buildup to the Lunar New Year, Dia Linh village in Thua Thien-Hue province is busy producing terra-cotta statues of the Kitchen Gods to serve the high demand for the festive season.