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This year Chinese New Year, Lunar New l'any-s'escaigué on February 9. I was lucky enough to spend it in Bangkok city ambivalent feverish multicultural. The Chinese community is widespread in Thailand, as in many other countries around the world. From early morning, we could hear, through various neighborhoods of the city, the peal of drums and cymbals that gangs wore a juggling to the other squares and streets. Human towers, like our towers are the specialty of these gangs. Including children, the youngest of the group play its role because they are the castles that crown, and therefore, they take more risks. In Vietnam the Chinese New Year Tet call. Many of you remember the famous Tet Offensive, as he called then-American press, the offensive troops nordvietnamites carried out, on 31 January 1968. Militarily, this attack was a resounding failure for the northern army, greatly decimated because their troops, hana bed but caused an immediate effect on American public opinion, which began to manifest itself against the war, first in the universities and then to the big cities of the country. Although for many years which adopted the solar calendar, the Tet is the most important

celebration in Vietnam. For three days stop in the middle of the country, is immobilized so literal. In this short space of time, find a taxi or buy a loaf of bread is an adventure always uncertain results. Even disappear as if by magic, a newspaper which was signed. The streets at any stage of the day or night, have a dim activity, with a little nasty desolation. Trade, stores have faded and the only restaurants

open are those run by foreign hands. The most important activity of this celebration is the family meal. The people then gathered in family groups, more or less confined to banquets basis as well. Tables or carpeted floors are filled hana bed with a myriad of infinite plates and trays filled with small delicacies, chillona, ​​fragrant. Beer, wine and juices varied irrigate rice meals. In fact, these services are so important that Vietnamese does not say "celebrate Tet" but "eat Tet". It does all the houses in which he has been invited. The Tet takes place between the last ten days of January and early February, depending on the phases of the moon. It is a feast of Chinese, Vietnamese and many celebrations. Although Vietnam's cultural personality is very strong, you can not deny that it has grown and developed allargadíssima under the shadow of China, which is the oldest civilization in history still active, and lastly with an iron. In Asia, China was and still is that in ancient Rome meant for our Europe. hana bed How many more of these feasts, the origin of the Lunar New Year correlates with human nature. From the very beginning, the celebration of Tet represented a break between the farmer and the land was cultivated without

aturall the last twelve table, before, of course, to undertake the task again. Our solar calendar, which is the calendar that Pope Gregory XIII set up his household at Western in 1582, is a rather bureaucratic calendar is a calendar that immediately looked more prosaic issues affect relationships human and firm decided to move away from any expression bucolisme. The moon, however, preserve ties with intuitive heartbeat of Mother Earth. The Tet is nothing that the holding of the first rumors of the spring. One or two weeks before the day, the flower of peach, a pale pink, bloodless, hana bed and the plum tree, a fiery crimson, remove head and knotted branches irritated. The Vietnamese sizes, sells on the street and then used to decorate your home. In Hanoi winter runs its course. The skies, pearl infinity remain low, suffocating and precipitate a maximum-maximum which seems to have no end. But spring, hana bed as every season is telluric and atmospheric already made an appearance in the peach and plum. Winter is thus touched death.
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