According to the Vietnam News Agency correspondent in Brussels, BX1, the French-language television channel of the Brussels capital region broadcast a report “Vietnamese celebrate Tet in Woluwe Saint-Pierre“with the content of the community Tet program organized by the General Association of Vietnamese in Belgium in collaboration with the Vietnamese Embassy in Belgium on January 22 in Brussels.
Reporters said that on January 22, about 400 Vietnamese people attended the traditional and pure festival in the Woluwe Saint-Pierre district. “Happy New Year” is the catchphrase of Vietnamese people when they meet on this occasion. Even some Belgians learn to say “Happy New Year.”
The Vietnamese New Year festival features traditional national dishes, including pomelo, an indispensable fruit on Tet holiday and decorated in the Vietnamese way. One of the dishes that the reporter introduced is banh mi, a Vietnamese specialty that is now listed in the Oxford dictionary.
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The festival is decorated with Tet couplets or calligraphy brought from Vietnam. These are indispensable household decorations during Tet, extremely colorful and that is a way to bring a lot of energy to the family in the new year. To write calligraphy, one must learn for many years, and when expressed, it is as winding as performing martial arts.
In addition, the Tet festival of the Vietnamese people cannot lack cultural performances and this time performed by an art troupe from Ho Chi Minh City.
The report emphasizes that the Vietnamese community has about 5,000 people living in Brussels. Today’s Tet festival is just the beginning and it will last for 15 days.
Huong Giang (VNA/Vietnam+)