Lunar New Year 2024 (Tet Nguyen Dan 2024) “comes later” than last year, so specifically what day does Lunar New Year 2024 fall on the Gregorian calendar?
At the end of the calendar year, people often think about the Lunar New Year and the question “What day is Lunar New Year 2024” or “How many days until Tet” is asked.
When is Lunar New Year 2024? (Tet Nguyen Dan 2024)
If last year, Lunar New Year was very close to New Year’s Day (only coming after 3 weeks, the first day of Tet is January 22, 2023), then this year, the distance between these two days is significantly farther. So when is Lunar New Year 2024?
New Year 2024 is the 20th day of the 11th lunar month. And after more than 1 month, exactly 1 month and 9 days, we celebrate the Lunar New Year of Giap Thin 2024.
According to the Perpetual Calendar, the 30th day of Tet this year will fall on Friday, February 9, 2024, and the 1st day of Lunar New Year 2024 will fall on Saturday, February 10, 2024.
How many days off are there for Lunar New Year 2024?
On November 22, 2023, the Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs issued Notice 5015/TB-LDTBXH 2023 on the 2024 Lunar New Year holiday for officials, civil servants, public employees and workers as follows :
Officials, civil servants, public employees and workers of administrative agencies, public service agencies, political organizations, and socio-political organizations will have a day off for the 2024 Lunar New Year from Thursday, February 8, 2024. calendar (i.e. December 29, Quy Mao year) until Wednesday, February 14, 2024 (i.e. January 5, Giap Thin year).
This leave includes 5 days off for Lunar New Year and 2 days off on Saturday and Sunday.
For employees who do not fall into the above cases, the employer decides to choose one of the following Lunar New Year leave options:
– Choose the last day of the Year of the Cat (2023) and the first 4 days of the Year of the Dragon (2024).
– Choose the last 2 days of the Year of the Cat (2023) and the first 3 days of the Year of the Dragon (2024).
– Choose the last 3 days of the Year of the Cat (2023) and the first 2 days of the Year of the Dragon (2024).
The meaning of Lunar New Year
Lunar New Year (or Lunar New Year, Traditional Tet or simply called Tet) is the biggest holiday among festivals in Vietnam, holding an extremely important position in the cultural and spiritual life of Vietnamese people. . This is an opportunity for people to reunite with their families, visit their homeland and remember their ancestors.
In the minds of Vietnamese people, Tet is a day of reunion and union. No matter where they are or what they do, people look forward to returning home to have a New Year’s Eve meal with their family and to worship at their ancestors’ altar.
On the 30th day of Tet, according to custom, every family prepares two trays to worship ancestors and gods right at the moment of New Year’s Eve to erase all the bad luck and troubles of the old year and welcome a peaceful new year. , happy.
On the first day of Tet, families wait to welcome the first person to enter the new year. Our grandparents believe that after New Year’s Eve, whoever enters the house first with New Year’s greetings will be the one to enter the house. Normally, the homeowner will invite someone who has good luck, is compatible with the homeowner, and is of the same age as the homeowner to come to their house. The person who breaks the ground must also be happy and in good health, to bring luck to the homeowner in the new year.
Also on the first day of the year, parents and grandparents often congratulate their children with wishes of good health, obedience, and peace. Adult children and grandchildren also give lucky money to their parents and grandparents to pray that they will always be healthy and stay with them for a long time.
Vietnamese people believe that happy Tet days will signal a peaceful and good new year. The old year passes bringing with it bad luck and the new year begins to bring people faith in life. If we have a lucky and favorable previous year, this luck will last into the next year. With this meaning, Tet is also a day of optimism and hope.
