When is Tết 2025? How Vietnamese New Year is celebrated - In Vietnam, people celebrate the new year with a festival called Tết

Chinese New Year - also called Lunar New Year - celebrates the arrival of spring. Here's when it starts and ends in 2025 and why it lasts that long.

While Lunar New Year’s legislatively recognized holiday status in Washington is recent, some local groups have celebrated the holiday for decades. Here’s what’s going on this year.

Lunar New Year is the Vietnamese community’s biggest celebration, and family would travel home for the holiday in the Southeast Asian country. “We work all year. We save all the money but spend a lot on food, clothes, decorations, and flowers during the Lunar New Year,” said Morrison.

A key part of the Chinese “xiao nian” festival a week before Lunar New Year concerns the Kitchen God, who is also celebrated in Vietnam.

Northern Vietnam’s top destinations, including Ha Giang and Sa Pa, promise unforgettable memories during Tet 2025 with stunning views and vibrant traditions.

2025 is the Year of the Wood Snake, the sixth animal on the 12-year cycle. The snake is meant to symbolize wisdom, growth and renewal. The snake has the ability to shed its skin, which shows transformation. This is said to make people with the Snake zodiac sign visionaries and good leaders.

The Lunar New Year begins Wednesday, but celebrations around the area are spread over multiple weeks, making it easier to find street parades, lion dances, concerts, family-friendly performances, night markets and new beers.

Here's when the Chinese New Year starts in 2025, how long it lasts, where the Lunar New Year is celebrated and your guide to the Year of the Snake.

Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year or the Spring Festival, is a 15-day festival that is celebrated in many Asian countries.  It originated during China's Shang Dynasty, and it has many traditions,

In addition to organizing three huge festivals to celebrate Lunar New Year, these Arizonans also find time to cook. What they're making and why.

We’ve noticed while scouring shops online that there are a number of Lunar New Year themed items out there to mark the annual celebration.