HULIS – VNUClass: 06.1.E6

Group’s members:1. Bui Phuong Anh2. Nguyen Thi Ha3. Luong Thu Huong4. Nguyen Thi Linh Nga5. Vu Hai Trang

Hogmanay & Tet Holiday

Main Content

• Process

• Dos and Don’ts

• Verbal language

• Games

1. Process

Hogmanay− Time

− Preparation

− During Hogmanay

Hogmanay

Time:

- December 31st January 3rd

Preparation:

- Clean the house

- Sweep out & polish the fire place

- Place pieces from a rowan tree above a door

- Place a piece mistletoe in the house

- Burn juniper throughout the house

- Pay all the debt

Hogmanay

During Hogmanay• At midnight of the Dec 31st

• First Footing

• Bonfires and Fire Festivals

• The Singing of Auld Lang Syne

Hogmanay• January 1st

• 1st person to rise up in the morning take Het Pint (spiced ale) to those members who are still asleep

• Children get up early and sing traditional song & receive coins, pies, apples and candies.

• First footing continues

1. Process

Tet Holiday− Time

− Preparation

− During Tet Holiday

Tet Holiday

Time:

- begins on the first day of the first lunar month

- lasts for 7 days

Preparation:

- Decorate the house (peach, apricot, etc.)

- Clean the house and ancestral graves

- Cook traditional Tết food

- Wait for relatives to return home.

- Pay off their debts in advance

- Go shopping

Tet Holiday

During Tet Holiday• At midnight

•First footing•Pick trees for luck•Go out (pagoda, firework…)•Stay at home and pray to the ancestor

Tet Holiday• On New Year’s days

• Tết 1st (for the nuclear family)

The first person to enter a house on Tết

xông đất, xông nhà or đạp đất,

One of the most important rituals during Tết.

Children receive a red envelope

mừng tuổi (happy new age) in the north

lì xì in the south.

• During subsequent days

People visit relatives and friends

2. Dos & Don’ts

• On Hogmanay

• On Tet Holiday

Hogmanay

Dos Don’ts

- Clean the house, take out ashes from fire

- Clear all debts

- Open the all the door

- The household would also make as much noise as possible

- First footer bring gifts: salt, coal, whisky, Blackburn (shortbread)

- Arrive before the chimes of midnight on NY’s Eve

- Carry a sharp objects like knife

- Women, red haired people, doctor, Minister, someone born with the handicap and someone who eyebrows meet in the middle and person who has no gift

become first footer

2. Dos & Don’ts

• On Hogmanay

• On Tet Holiday

Tet Holiday

Dos Don’ts

- Give people lucky presents

- Buy a lot of water for Tết,

- Pay debts before Tết

- Buy salt

- Say or do bad things during Tết.

- Hurt or kill animals or plants but should set them free

- Sweep the house or empty out the rubbish

- Give these presents to others: clock or watch, cats, medicine, scissors or knives

- Have duck meat and shrimp

- Buy or wear white clothes

3. Verbal LanguageHogmanay

• Happy New Year – Happy Homanay• Lang may yer lum reek

(Long may your chimney smoke)• A guid New Year to ane an ‘a’ and mony may ye see

(A good new year to one and all, and many may you see)• A guid yeae tae ye ( A good year to you)• Wish each other good luck

Great good luck to the house,Good luck to the family,Luck to the good-wife,Good luck to the children,Good luck to every friend,Great fortune and health to all.

3. Verbal Language

Tet Holiday

• Chúc mừng năm mới (Happy new year)• Cung chúc tân xuân (Happy New Year)

• Sống lâu trăm tuổi (Live up to 100 years): used by children for elders.

• An khang thịnh vượng (Security, good health, and prosperity)

• Vạn sự như ý (May a myriad things go according to your will)

• Sức khoẻ dồi dào (Plenty of health)

• Cung hỉ phát tài (Congratulations and be prosperous)

• Tiền vô như nước (May money flow in like water): used informally

Games

•Game 1•Game 2

1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10

Game 1

Question 1

Who is considered as the perfect first footer in Hogmanay?

A. doctor or MinisterB. a tall black haired manC. a tall red haired manD. man with eyebrows meeting in the middle

B

Question 2

Why does Scottish place a piece of mistletoe in the house?

A. to prevent illness to the householdersB. to fight away the evil spiritC. to kiss under like at ChristmasD. to bring good luck

A

Question 3

At midnight, the households would make as much noise as possible to scare off the evil spirit, T or F?

T

Question 4

What do the first footers give the householders as gifts?

A. Coal, cake, whiskyB. Cake, salt, flowerC. Coal, chocolate, whiskyD. Coal, cake, salt

D

Question 5

When giving the householders the coal, the first footer should say?

A. Lang may yer lum reek (Long may your chimney smoke)

B. A guid New Year to ane an ‘a’ and mony may ye see (A good new year to one and all, and many may you see)

C. A guid yeae tae ye ( A good year to you)D. All of above

A

Question 6

Strangers are not welcomed in Hogmanay.T or F ?

F

Question 7

Which present should be given during Tet holiday?

A. Clock or watchB. scissors or knivesC. MedicineD. New clothes

D

Question 8

During Tet holiday, Vietnamese people can eat shrimp, T or F?

F

Question 9

During Tet holiday, Vietnamese people can sweep the house or empty out the rubbish, T or F?

F

Game 2

Rule:

Listen to the definition and choose the picture with relevant meaning

The team with the most correct answers will be the winner

1. Which sentence has the meaning “Long may your chimney smoke”?

Lang may yer lum reek2.Which sentence has the meaning “Congratulations and be prosperous”?

Cung hỉ phát tài3. Which sentence has the meaning “A good new year to one and all, and many may you see”?

A guid New Year to ane an ‘a’ and mony may ye see4. Which sentence has the meaning “May a myriad things go according to your will”?

Vạn sự như ý

5. What is the traditional Scottish wine drunk on Hogmanay? Whisky

6. What are the Vietnamese traditional foods eaten on Tet?

Chung cake

7. What is the Scottish traditional food eaten on Hogmanay?

Haggis

8. Which gift that the first footer gives the householder symbolizes wealth?

Salt