Belgian television makes reportage on Vietnamese Lunar New Year celebration
Belgium’s French-language television channel BX1 has broadcasted a reportage entitled "Vietnamese people celebrate Tet in Woluwe Saint-Pierre" about the Lunar New Year (Tet) that the Vietnamese Association in Belgium and the Vietnamese Embassy in Belgium organised on January 22 in Brussels.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Belgium Nguyen Van Thao speaks at the Lunar New Year ( Tet) celebration held by the Vietnamese Embassy and Vietnamese Association in Belgium. (Photo: VNA)
Brussels (VNA)𓃲– Belgium’s French-language television channel BX1 has broadcasted a reportage entitled "Vietnamese people celebrate Tet in Woluwe Saint-Pierre" about the LunarNew Year (Tet) that the Vietnamese Association in Belgium and theVietnamese Embassy in Belgium organised on January 22 in Brussels.
The reportage said thatabout 400 Vietnamese people attended the traditional Tet festivalin Woluwe Saint-Pierre district where not only Vietnamese people but alsoBelgians said to each other “Chuc mung Nam moi” (Happy New Year). Visitors to the festivalhad a chance to enjoy Vietnamese traditional foods and fruits, particularlygrapefruit - an indispensable fruit during Tet celebrations. The channel’s reporterintroduced “banh mi” (Vietnamese bread) - a specialty whose name is included inthe Oxford Dictionary. The festival was decoratedwith parallel sentences or calligraphy brought from Vietnam. According to thereportage, hanging calligraphy is an indispensable decoration in the houses ofVietnamese people during Tet. To write calligraphy, one must learn for manyyears, and calligraphers look like performing martial arts when writing. Besides, the Tet festivalincluded a peformance by an art troupe from Ho Chi Minh City. The reportage emphasised that about 5,000 Vietnamese people are living in Brussels and thatthe Tet festival will take place for 15 days starting on January 22 whichmarks the first day of the Lunar Year of the Cat./.
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