In fact, in Vietnam we do not watch Paris By Night mainly on Tet holiday, instead, we have a program called Tao Quan, which is broadcast on VTV, the national television station every Lunar New Year. , it's a comedy show that brings together our country's outstanding issues from the past year.
Interesting. I guess that is how mainland Vietnamese can differ from the overseas Vietnamese diaspora community. I figured you guys would have your own program but really had no idea what it was until now. As for the diaspora community, from memory, there were 2 other shows called Asia and Van Son which were just as popular as PBN but I don't think they're a thing anymore...? Anyway, thanks for sharing. Really interesting to know what Vietnamese people watch within Vietnam itself. :)
It depends. My family and I (from the South) have never watched Tao Quan, lol but we've heard of it (on the news actually). Maybe Paris by Night is out-dated but it's still a thing (in my family). I have some friends from the Mekong area and they said they hadn't known what Tao Quan was until I explained it to them. This is just my opinion so I don't wanna assume anything (*cough couldn't hold your breath there *cough)
I wish Mongolian lunar new year was included in this video. Because we have a bit different customs too. We celebrate it according to our own lunar calendar, due to which every once in a few years we celebrate it 1 month apart from the other countries. We also have sheep year instead of goat year 😃
What is the difference between sheep and goat? In Chinese, only difference seems to be variants (Sheep = 綿羊；wooly 羊, goat = 山羊; mountain 羊). And the Year is just "羊"... which is more accurately Caprini/Ovis
The "Paris by Night" show is not banned in Vietnam, it's not the show for New Year only , everyone can watch it if they like and mainly the oversea- Vietnamese watch it. Because of the development of variety shows on TV or the Internet, the VietNamese nowadays have many choices to choose what they want to watch, one of the most viewed TV shows in Vietnam on New Year Eve is "Táo Quân".
@Rebecca Matthews that true. Maybe person who made this video interviewed Vietnamese people have lived in US for long time. He couldnt interviewed native people
Most Vietnamese are confused of what it means to be banned. Being banned means they can't install their HQ or official institutes to do their work in Vietnam. Asia Show and Paris By Night are therefore banned because they can't operate and capitalize Vietnam's market.
They all copy the Chinese because it's very colorful and its a long pass down tradition , but they want to be different. Vietnam, Korea and Japan all have similar Chinese building and writing as well, but they all try to be different. When you're burn fireworks on 4th of July, you're basically celebrating Chineses invention xD A simple invention turns to fire arms and sending the first man to the moon. They all want to be different.
@Rebecca Matthews Paris By Night is a musical variety show that was conceived in Paris by Vietnamese immigrants who fled the communist regime in Vietnam in the late 70s and 80s. It was then moved to Orange County, California because of the much larger Vietnamese community there.
There are a couple of minor errors in the Japanese segment. 1) Japanese New Year still has a massive travel wave to visit family (Shinkansen bullet trains will be running at 120-130% capacity even with extra trains scheduled, domestic flights out of major airports in Tokyo/Osaka/Nagoya will be fully booked, and traffic jams extend for kilometers going out of cities). Of course, it depends on the family though (some will spend New Year with just the immediate family). 2) Lion Dances (Shishimai) can still occur depending on the location. Overall, I really enjoyed this video though, and it was a great presentation! Please keep making more videos! I enjoyed seeing the depth of traditional New Year culture in East Asia, and I hope there will be a bright and prosperous Year of the Ox ahead for everyone.
Being Teochew Chinese-Vietnamese, my family has a mixture of traditions that kinda turned into a melting pot of traditions. One thing you’ve missed though you did slightly touch on in the video was the 5 fruit offerings. The 5 fruits vary from region to region as you have mentioned but it is more than just with the local fruits that are available. Like the Chinese puns, the 5 fruits, here, are also puns. The most popular one in the South is custard apple (mảng cầu), coconut (dừa), papaya (đu đủ), mango (xoài) and figs (sung). The reason is that together, it spells out the pun “cầu sung vừa đủ xài” which roughly translates to “may we be well-off and have just enough to spend.” Other than that, a must-have fruit during this festive season is watermelon. If you were to have only one fruit, it must be watermelon. Once again, the word for melon dưa is pronounced fairly similarly to vừa in southern Vietnamese but other than that, the inside is red. I'm sure no extra explanation required there haha In terms of the Vietnamese rice cakes, you’ve mentioned the most popular cakes in both north and south Vietnam but there’s an actual legend behind them as well. Every tradition and food during this celebration has a significant meaning and reason. Not so much bánh tét since that derived off the original bánh chưng but, long story short, bánh dày and bánh chưng are significant for its meaning and symbolism. Whereas bánh dày is round to represent the heavens/sky, bánh chưng is square in shape to represent the earth. I won't go through the tale so you'd just have to search up "the legend of banh chung and banh day". They are basically VERY traditional rice cakes. As for southern Chinese culture, in particular Teochew Chinese, alongside ang pows, mandarins (referring to the fruit) are also exchanged. This is because the word for mandarin (once again, I'm referring to the fruit) in Teochew is 橘 (gek) which sounds similar to 吉 (gik) for auspiciousness. Teochew new year rice cakes are usually red or pink in colour. Popular cakes include 紅龜粿 (ang ku kueh - red tortoise cake) and 紅桃粿 (ang to kueh - red peach cake) aka 飯粿 (perng kueh - rice cake). Both cakes represent longevity with the character 壽 etched onto them as we believe that there’s a magical heavenly peach that could extend your life. As for the tortoises, they are known to live for hundreds of years thus making them symbols of longevity.
I'm from Foshan (Guangdong), I remember when I was a kid, we will go to the flower streets together as a family (行花街) to purchase mandarin plants and cherry blossoms to decorate our house. We would also hang red envelopes and LED lights onto the cherry blossom branches to make it look prettier, like a Christmas tree. Kids will also get to carry golden windmills (风车) when they are at the flower streets or when they go to temples to pray. During the lantern festival (on the 15th day os new year), we will carry lanterns to see the lantern shows (元宵灯会), watch cantonese opera (粤剧) and play 猜灯谜 which is a traditional game to guess the word of the phrase on the lantern (riddles). We also have the tradition to not sleep at the night transiting to the morning of new year, which is called 守岁 or 熬年, usually the adults do that and they scare the kids (including me) saying 年兽 (a monster that comes at new year) will come at night so they need to stay awake to prevent the kids not to be eaten or kidnaped. But tbh the kids still couldn't fall asleep at that night because firecrackers and fireworks are non-stop lol. We also need to wake up early to visit our ancestral houses to serve incense to our ancestors with rice wine, white rice cakes, chicken, fruits etc. Then we visit door to door to say our blessings to our relatives, kids will then receive their red pockets. It's a really tiring day because no sleep at night and constant human interactions, that's why as a kid i enjoy the night on new years day where all the kids get to light up sparklers, watch fireworks, play hide and seek and just have a fun time with same age kids altogether. I miss those days since I've never felt the same way after I immigrated, it's still fun to watch dragon and lion dance at China town and have dinner at a Chinese restaurant with my family, but it's just not the same.
For Vietnamese, just some corrections: 1. The ancient word for rabbit does not sound like cat. It's because the rabbit zodiac is 卯, which sounds like 貓 lol.... 2. Bánh chưng and bánh tét are both eaten in both north and south. They usually go together, not in different areas. Also the most distinct difference between northern and southern Vietnamese Tet is that the north decorates pink cherry flowers everywhere, while the south decorates yellow apricot flowers everywhere. This gives each region very color-coded distinctions lol The north also watches a comedy skit called Táo quân 灶君 religiously every year. The skit is a politically and cultural commentary on the year that just passed through the story of the Kitchen god reporting earthly matters to the Jade emperor.
Táo quân 灶君 is also called 灶神/灶王/灶王爺 in China , he will return to the heaven and report to the Jade emperor about everything happened in the house at the end of the passed year.
What's funny is the similarities are really similar, but the differences vary even within the country. Check out all the Vietnamese commenters pointing out which show they actually watch at new years! So, sure they're not identical, but as in the west, it sure seems like not even 2 Chinese or 2 Vietnamese could agree on what New Years involves! I suppose as humans we often focus on what differentiates us and makes us more individual or distinguishes our group from others, rather than the things we do that are virtually the same. Thanks for giving us a greater sense of that nuance. 😊
@@oanhinhthi6758 Ông ta có thể đã sai lầm, và những lãnh đạo sau đã sửa sai cho ông ấy. rõ ràng ngày lễ Nguyên Đán dựa trên lịch Trung Quốc thì tại sao không thuộc về Trung Quốc?
All of China's history, culture, and customs are recorded in historical literature and archaeology written by ancient people, while South Korea takes science fiction historical novels written by modern people as real history. There is no historical literature written by ancient people, and there is no archaeological evidence. The funniest thing is that there are Chinese materials in Korean museums that prove that Korea used to be a vassal state of China. Koreans treat it as a treasure, but they cannot understand the content inside and do not recognize it as a vassal state of China! Lastly, why does South Korea claim everything to be its own instead of North Korea? Didn't North Korea and South Korea use to be the one country?
The official/formal way to refer to the Lunar New Year in Indonesia is Tahun Baru Imlek. Imlek being the Hokkien pronunciation of the Yinli calendar mentioned in the video, and Tahun Baru meaning new year in our country's language; Bahasa Indonesia. However, just within Chinese Indonesians circles, we often say Sincia (新正 in Chinese characters). Sin Tjhoen Kiong Hie to my fellow Chinese Indonesians, and 新年快樂 to everyone else :)
Historically, Japan used to celebrate according to the traditional Chinese Lunisolar (Lunar) Calendar. However, during the Meiji Era, the government moved towards Westernization and adopted the Gregorian calendar beginning on January 1 for the new year. However, They still are using the Chinese Lunisolar (Lunar) Calendar for agriculture purposes.
@Huan Nguyen not saying that they don't celebrate lunar new year any more ,but they have moved most of the festivals including lunar new year according to Gregorian calendar, so the new year of Japan is now same with the western countries
Malaysian chinese celebrate this event as 华人农历新年，Translation usually goes to chinese new year (it really meant a lot by calling this way) until recently lunar new year due to some weird habit happens across internet, tradition or celebrate method origin are from 福建or 广东。Your info is certainly accurate at a general level. The only thing that i am not satisfy with is the translation "Lunar New Year", i always hope it will get a accurate one since the it calculate through 24节气，the date that measure from Sun and Moon, yet the Lunar only meant for "Moon".
Actually, the name Lunar New Year was only "appeared " in recent years, due to the Koreans don't like the word "Chinese" in the Chinese New Year name, because they don't want people to think it's originated and invented by the Chinese people and how much they had been influenced by Chinese culture (it hurts their Ego). So they had sent "letters" to "cry" with the UN, the big Internet media companies like Google, Facebook, Twitters...to change the Chinese New Year to "Lunar New Year", (with the excuse as them Korea and many Asian countries also celebrated it...) which as you said is a very inaccurate one, and to me, a disrespectful one to the people who invented the festival.
Totally agree with you, Chinese New Year is inclusive, but lunar new year actually exclusive. I say Chinese New Year since I was born, not because Chinese people so named Chinese New Year, because Chinese traditional calendar. I don’t like lunar new year, it’s political correct , change lunar new year is culture appropriation.
couldn't agree more. the spring festival follows the lunisolar calendar, not the lunar one. it really doesn't make sense when foreigners refer to chinese new year as "lunar new year," unless they're excluding it
You missed a few points, but I'll let it go since I think this is a Hanoian's thing only. We have something called "New Year's Eve Bath". People will attend the market and buy special herbs to make the bathwater. We also visit temples around Hanoi on the first day of the new year, it is a must to visit all four guardian temples in Hanoi, other regions of the North visit different temples. Each family will have their own list of temples to visit, mine always visit the literature temple. We send fish to Kitchen gods by releasing fishes to ponds and rivers so that they can ride the fish to heaven, reporting what has happened that year. We stay up all night to wait for the new year and then eat the offerings we made, tell our family about the previous year. Sprinkle rice and salt to the road for... I'm not sure what's that for. We don't wear red for New Years'? According to my parents, it is a recent thing, we simply buy new clothes. Paris By Night is only popular with the older generation, we as a younger demographic aren't a fan of Bolero. We still watch Tao Quan tho, last year they broke my heart announcing that they won't be showing it, basically a fun, social-commentary comedy using the concept of Táo Quân or the kitchen gods. one last thing, the Banh Chung was created during Hung Vuong times, it was used to celebrate New Year's harvest...I think.
yeah, I'm from Sai Gon and I haven't heard of the "New Year Eve's bath" so it's probably a Northern tradition. The salt and rice I think is for "cô hồn" (wondering sprits). I think it's similar to burning paper/cardboard things as gift/offerings to our ancestors (?) And there's another thing too, people avoid sweeping the house because they're scared of sweeping away New year's luck.
I come from China, in fact, some parts of China also have the custom of bathing on New Year's Eve, my hometown is like this, usually on the night of the New Year's Eve with mugwort leaves（chinese：艾叶） boiling water to take a bath.From what you say, I find that the customs of North Vietnam and China are quite similar.Those who believe in Buddhism will go to the temple to burn incense and pray on the first day of New Year. Many people will get up very early in order to burn incense early.
@@laurnnguyen OOh, about sweeping the floor, we still do that in the North, it's just that we'll sweep it towards ourselves, to avoid sweeping fortune away from one self.
@@baochi456 ohhhh so that's why my paternal side of the family still sweeps, I didn't know that b4. The more you know i guess- People also sweeps but don't discard the trash, they just keep the dirty stuff in some corner of the house 'til after the 15th day. Which is neat lol
Dude. Thanks for creating this video. I was just thinking of this when my family and I were in Vietnam last week. Vietnam has the Year of the Cat but no Rabbit.. I found that very interesting and tried to find out more.
I find it amazing that the Chinese Lunar Calendar (农历) is actually incredibly precise at predicting the changing of the seasons in China's core (the timezone that aligns with Beijing's). On the days that the Lunar calendar marks as 'Entering Spring' (立春) or 'Entering Autumn' (立秋), you can sense the immediate change in the climate, as if the weather is actually aligned with and directly responding to the calendar itself. This is very different from the west, where the Gregorian Calendar has only a very limited correlation with the change of the seasons.
It's not Beijing, it's Henan and Shaanxi, the capital of ancient Chinese dynasties. The weather there is exactly the same as the (lunar calendar). It tells people when to grow rice and when to mature
@麻辣拌 bulls. Ancient chinese were nomadics who constantly travelled. Confucious travelled southwarda to lac viet and copied their rice cultivation and celebration of tet aka lunar new year.
Thank you for the video! It is nice to educate yourself how uniquely New Year is celebrated in different countries. At the same time we are all connected in one way :)
20:30 The Vietnamese Zodiac actually has TWO differences! It's the Water Buffalo instead of the Ox. There're also some differences between North and South is that the North usually displays pink peach blossoms while in the South it's the yellow apricot flower. Also, Paris by Night is only famous by the Vietnamese refugees intentionally, the people in the country would watch a comedy show called "Gặp Nhau Cuối Năm" (End-Year Meeting Gala) or colloquially called "Táo Quân" (灶君)
@Rebecca Matthews He clearly say that's the show is for oversea Vietnamese! It's had been consider illegal in Vietnam for sometime so nobody admit they watched it to you! Its well know in Southern Vietnam and an Audiophile than the North due to high quality of music! The name " Thuý Nga Paris by Nigth show" because the producer original start it in Paris, France! Now they moved to USA!
Friendly advise! Do not simply categorize for other people’s heritage specially if you are not part of the culture! Ignorant europeans “explained” various Mongol tribes and by doing that “segregated” the people!
In Nepal too lunar new year is widely celebrated. in Nepal it is called Lhosar. in the month of December Tibetan lunar year (Tamu lhosar) is celebrated by gurung then in the month of January / February Tibetan lunar year (sonam lhosar) is celebrated by tamang and in the month of February / March Tibetan lunar year (gyalpo lhosar) is celebrated by Sherpa, hyolmo, monks, Tibetans and others. 🇳🇵
china was like rome in europe other nations around rome wanted to be romans and used roman culture vietnam japan korea culture all heavily based on chinese culture
Yes, but only some things are Chinese. I think we should make it clear. We don't see Italians going around and claiming every European thing came from Italia.
@@KaceyRightman2023 Rome vs Italy. Those are two separate things. Roman Empire and civilization gone. People don't speak Latin anymore, nor do they use the language. The Chinese traditions and culture that has been around for thousands of years still continue. I mean, do Italians still worship Pagan gods like Jupiter, Mars, Diana, etc.
It's sad to say these 4 countries always give strongly hatred and wary to each others while they have similar culture. And they also don't feel good when westerners compare their culture to each others.
Yeah. But unfortunately, near countries each other have to be bad relationship. Beacause almost countries history relation is remembered as many 'wars'. And a long time ago, war is occupied only from near country. Of course, good relationship is good. But near countries' bad relationship is not odd at all. We just have to grateful for that that 3 countries are not being at war.
@뉸뉴냔냐 Koreans are giving hate speech to Japanese people. Don't overturn the logic. Confucian country = South Korea discriminates Japanese as inferior. Confucian nations do not accept the idea of equality before the law. The nations are ranked in a hierarchical relationship.
@@deelak-ss9262 blame your ancestors for murdering & torturing millions of Asians all around Asia with their satanic brutality. For a start, apologize and stop worshipping your “war heroes” if you want people to forgive you
I read some book which says it was because the Meiji government didn't have money to pay the salary of the last month to civil servants accross the country. Then they adopt Gregorian calendar and the last month of that year on the traditional calendar just disappeared. I don''t know whether it was true or just a joke.
Thank you for this awesome videos. I learned so much from this video. I really appreciate that you include Vietnam in this. A lot of Eat Asian history focused channels like to skip Vietnam due to the country popularity in Asian Pop-culture is non existence. As a South East Asian country geographically, Vietnam is really an East Asian culture country (Although nowadays we use Latin-based writing system,, we used to use Chinese writing and later chữ Nôm, another writing script similar to Han Chinese script)
@@VinhNguyen-ce5if the southeast asians think we're culturally different. The east asians think we're too poor to be one of them, which is condescending. Well, let it be. I guess Vietnam just needs to be herself and posperous.
@@viett.nguyen9319 as an overseas Vietnamese I never thought it would be so much of an issue whether Vietnam is shoved into the East Asian Box or the South East Asian Box. I find it rather ridiculous too to determine geographical or cultural affiliation by prosperity. I learned a new lesson today and I hope that Vietnam will blossom in it‘s own glory without being hung up on where to belong to.
People always ask why is the cat not included in the zodiac when other animals like the dog is included. Not sure if this is legit but they say there was a story about the cat and the mouse being best friends and they promised each other that they will wake up early and report to the jade emperor so that they would get the first few spots on the calendar, however the next day, the mouse woke up and left on his own while the cat was asleep and he ended up getting the first spot on the zodiac, the cat on the other hand woke up late and ended up being the 13th animal to arrive, which means he does not get a spot since there were only 12 slots, and from that day onwards, the cat held an eternal grudge against the mouse and attacked it every time they met.
As someone who lives in korea this is mostly correct however these days people dont do all these activities as much. Its slowly becoming a travel holiday and less about tradition
Thank you! I hope there's more Asians with the same sentiment as yours. It's sad & disheartening after reading so much hateful racist comments from other Asians.
Đặc điểm chung của các quốc gia này là người dân chăm chỉ, tham vọng, và phát triển nhanh nếu có cơ hội, và tính cách, tính tình có vẻ khép kín hơn so với các quốc gia khác ở Châu Á. Và họ có tinh thần dân tộc rất cao. Và họ ưa chuộng làn da trắng và thân hình thon gọn, luôn đặt vấn đề giáo dục lên hàng đầu.
Theres so much things to tell about Vietnamese Tet that we cant never list them all out and many of them are quite unique On 23 Dec (Lunisolar) b4 Tết, we free the kois and bring traditional dishes on to the altar for the Ông Công Ông Táo (theres a story behind this, in fact there are stories behind everything oh dear...) Then we do the cleaning yes 👌 Lunar New Year night: theres firework all over the country, and grammas/moms always pray in front of the altar with another bunch of good food, fruits and treats and blah blah blah lots of things ✨✨ Every dishes goes on the altar are usually traditional even the fruit and alcohol and the settings... The person who "xông đất": basically the first person who enter the house in the new year will bring luck to the family (in my house its alway my dad right in the lunar new year eve after he watched the firework) The 3 following days are when ppl celebrate, go visit relative, date, going to the temples, vacation and have fun the most namely Mùng 1, Mùng 2, Mùng 3 (day1, day2, day3), and children stay with their parents and/or grandparents house for all these days. After that everything kinda cool down a bit but we still have another giving offerings to the altar on mid Jan lunisolar called Cúng ngày Rằm tháng Giêng shorten to Rằm tháng Giêng. There are also rules on Tet like not to cut hair, not to clean the house for the first few days so on and so on... Red envelope yes, new clothes yes, blossom and yellow apricot flower yes yes yes... blah blah... 👌 Lunar night TV shows: paris by night used to be my childhood but its kinda not a thing anymore. Im north VN so all i know is that from 2003 theres a gala show called Gặp nhau cuối năm (Year-end meeting) better known as Táo Quân (if u rmb ông công ông táo i mentioned above). Its a comedy (or should i say parody? they mock and make fun of the issues happenned in the year b4 urgh every year's were masterpieces) and music afterwards. In fact im quite shocked when i heard souther VN dont watch it i mean Táo Quân is legit guys 🥺👌✨ Your bánh chưng bánh tét part: acceptable Games:... ehm... i mean we do have a bunch of traditional games, just that we dont play those every year or play it like a habbit in new year celebration :// sad but true, im afraid its fading by the time 😔 . Yeah thats all i can think of atm...
About the game in vietnam. Mostly we dont play Bàu cua Tôm Cá stuff, we play western cards(Tú lơ khơ) with our own rules. Tho it is not traditional but has been practiced in recent decades
Korean: In ancient times, north of the Yangtze River in China was Korean territory. Vietnamese: In ancient times south of the Yangtze River was the territory of Vietnam. Chinese: Then I am a fish living in the Yangtze River.
@@shitoumantou592 Thank you all for respecting history, because Koreans like to steal Chinese culture. They harass websites all over the world through the Internet Army (VANK). Modify the entry. What I want to say is that Chinese characters were introduced to Korea about 1800 years ago, and to Vietnam about 1900 years ago. The earliest record of the Spring Festival in Chinese unearthed cultural relics is the record of the Nian beast inscribed in the cultural relics 3,700 years ago. Both Korean and Vietnamese characters are written in Chinese characters. Chinese characters originated in Shaanxi and Henan in China. So which country did the Spring Festival originate from? Go to Wikipedia yourself. I hope that Yunnan and South Korea can come up with cultural relics and authentic historical books for an international open debate.
The earliest Lunar New Year celebrations in Vietnam are believed to have been brought by Zhao Tuo, a Chinese general of the Qin Dynasty, the first king of South Vietnam and founder of the Triệu Dynasty, more than 2,000 years ago. _ _ _ _ In 204 BC, Zhao Tuo (General of Qin State, Shaanxi Province, China) established the Nanyue Kingdom. _ _ _ _ Now Guangxi, Guangdong and northern Vietnam. Traditions like Chinese policy, culture, Lunar New Year etc. were brought during his rule over Vietnam.
@@junweipan2494 -LOL. Cung chúc tân xuân năm Quý Mão. Nothing to do with Chinese New Year. Have to say you know a bit more about Vietnamese than most ignorant Chinese in China. They are so uneducated doesn't even know where Vietnam is, and I'm talking city people.
@@nwbest4336 I think that the moment Chinese Qin Dynasty army introduced Chinese characters to Vietnam, it is possible to bring Spring Festival to Vietnam. The ancestors of the Vietnamese should be the descendants of Qin Shihuang in Shaanxi, China. If you don't believe it, you can see that the cultural relics unearthed in Vietnam over 100 years ago are all Chinese characters. In addition, if I guessed correctly, in order to get rid of the influence of China, Vietnam adopted a new Latin alphabet, which made it impossible for Vietnam to understand its own history. In fact, like South Korea, South Korea does not want to be colonized by China in the past. I may say that Koreans and Vietnamese are not happy, but if you respect the historical facts, you can know the real history recorded in the unearthed documents as long as you restore the Chinese characters. If you don’t believe it, you can go to the Vietnam Museum to see the cultural relics inside. Know if I'm right.
@@yogadarmawan3051 Sure, sure. We all know well that Japan is a European country, not an Asia country. And we are very glad we are different from you guys😆
Very cool video, I'm a total outsider from these cultures, so it's all new and I thought you made it very in depth and at the same time, easy to follow understand. Thanks so much bros!
Japanese also have the New Year migration, which is called "Kisei Rush". But it is more considered as a traffic problem instead of a part of celebration.
Korea and Vietnam adopted the Chinese calender so many hundred years ago, so natrually the new Year they celebrate is undoubtedly the Chinese New Year, which means "the New Year's day on the Chinese Calendar".
I greatly appreciate this video and will be coming back to it when Seollal gets here in February. My family has a South Korean exchange student and I want to help her feel more at home by bringing the celebration to her. I want to do it justice so I’ve started researching months in advance.
4:16 Japanese 8th zodiac isn't Goat(山羊), but Sheep(羊). Maybe confused to chinese. 9:59 Also Different to china, Korean 8th zodiac is Sheep(양), not Goat(염소).
羊 is the general calling for all sheep, goat and all sheep class animals. Such as 山羊，绵羊 they are all 羊(sheep class). In Chinese, it mean the entire class instead of a specific subclass.
I don't know where they get the idea that in the Chinese zodiac 羊 is a goat, I think Chinese people don't tell them apart in zodiac. it is fine to use both goat or sheep, it doesn't matter. The zodiac toys are usually sheep not goat though as sheep toys are more round and furry XD
@@boxyyy7329 - exactly. I'm really puzzled as to how westerners think the Chinese zodiac 羊 is only the goat. It can be either goat or sheep. But if it has to be just one, then I'd say the sheep more than the goat, because (1) I've seen sheep depicted more often in Chinese zodiac art, and (2) the character descriptions of 羊 zodiac sign (e.g. gentle, obedient, etc) sound more like sheep than goat.
You missed the sweet treats for Vietnamese New Year's which are very Uniquely reminders of Tet..Those are certain candies or sweet treats made from fruits, gingers, coconut and etc..Another thing for Vietnamese's Tet Characteristics was roasted watermelons seeds with red dyed..For foods, it depends on regions..Watermelons often the common fruits for offering amongst others..In terms of games, as far as I can remembered, the 6 characters games and playing cards..Regardings to flowers, the yellow chrysanthemums are also popular ..Regardings to the glutinous rice cakes, they go together square and round shapes not separately..As other's comments posted, there was a legendary story behinds those shapes..
Same as Cantonese with all the candied fruit, nuts & seeds, except it's winter melon in Southern China, & not watermelon (that's clearly for the summer but I guess it's warmer even more down south in Vietnam LOL). Nowadays people prefer chocolate or modern candy.
Buying your new year's traditional food from a CVS is not the normjal thing to do in Japan at all. Usually students and people who work in Tokyo may go back to their home prefectures. Only if you're stuck in Tokyo (for example) and work for television or something is the CVS an option, i.e. you might be working on a New Year's program, in which case your New Year's is screwed. Otherwise there are more glamorous options for buying the replacement for the lacquered box with traditional home made food in it. Various restaurants may also have their New Year's menu once they open again after the first day of the year or on the 4th. The traditional New year's is called 旧正月, which follows the Chinese calendar.
牛and羊are simply general character for cow or sheep like creatures. 牛could be ox, buffalo, cow. 羊could mean sheep or goat. Also, Because Chinese new year holiday is about two weeks, we have to visit family members too, which is 拜年. Usually starting with closest family members first, then cousins etc.
@@jivvyjack7723 yeah, and the term for goat is 山羊, not just 羊. Like Paul said, the character 羊 itself doesn't specify goat or sheep. It doesn't matter whether sheep or goats are more common in China, in modern China you can find artwork and decorations of both sheep and goats during the year of the 羊, and if you search for "羊" in Chinese emojis, you will most likely get a picture of a sheep.
@@catsidhe181 Thanks for the clarification. Probably southerners associate the 羊character more with goat than sheep. For us, 山羊 refers to the mountain goat, not the farm variety. And the emoji I see is a slim 4-legged animal with 2 horns. Maybe that caused my confusion. 😄
I am from south China, Fujian. We do not eat zong zi( sticky rice) in Chinese New Year. We eat the red sugar rice cake, we also have white color rice cake but we usually made it in salty flavor.
I am third generation Hokkien living in Vietnam and now in the U.S. I am curious about red sugar rice cakes and white color rice cakes you mentioned because I don't know if they are the same cakes as we do eat. We eat zong zi, nian gao, fa gao, Bánh tét (Vietnamese rice cake) and sometimes red bean cakes. I think some cakes are Hokkien, Teochew (as offshoot of Minnan) and Cantonese related.
@@dpalgo hi brother, I am from Fuzhou, Fujian, which is the east part of Fujian, mindong. Fujian is very diverse province, different regions in the same city might have different food and dialect. So I am not sure if we have the same food since I have never been to other part of Fujian. The red sugar rice cake(nian gao) is the round dark color rice cake showed in this video, the white color rice cake(bai guo, we also call it nian ago too) is sort of Japanese rice cake but we cut it in slice and stir fried it with vegetables and meat or seafood. Some people like to cook this white color rice cake with seafood broth. In Fujian we eat nian gao(red one) during Chinese New Year, and the white color one is just something we eat in the daily life. Before Chinese New Year, I believe in Chu Xi we eat this small rice ball made by rice flour in the soup that were cooked by seafood, meat, and vegetables. And in Yuan Xiao( Lantern festival, last day of new year celebration) we eat the rice ball made by rice flour and filled with meat, and we call it, yuan xiao. For people that like sweet flavor, they would cook this ball stuffed with peanut, sugar, and sesame seeds. And we call this sweet type of rice ball, tang yuan.
@@dpalgo and in mindong, we do not eat fa gao I believe this is the food from Cantonese speaking area and Minnan in Fujian. But we do have red bean cake and green bean cake.
I am also 3rd generation Hokkien from Vietnam, the 年糕 that i knew is brown color, it normally fry or fry with eggs. 发糕 is in white color, or yellow color (yellow one normally is from Cantonese). Bánh tét bánh chưng (Vietnamese sticky rice cake) is Vietnamese traditional cake, not Chinese traditional cake, so you do rarely see bánh tét bánh chưng in pure Vietnamese Chinese families. And 粽子 is the traditional cake in Mid-year Festival (端午节 Tết Đoan Ngọ), not Lunar New Year.
@@niki12621 you know, I was amazed how you two still know about the Chinese culture and type Chinese. A lot of Chinese 2nd generation born in America do not know how to speak and write Chinese. Do you guys attend Chinese class after school in Vietnam? I think 发糕is a traditional cake that Cantonese people eat during the New Year, I am not sure if that is what people in south part of Fujian eat, because I know they have different culture with Mindong 闽东. I think the brown color rice cake is the red sugar cake, there are several ways you can eat it. You can steam it, or boil it in soup with sugar, or just like you mentioned you can fry it or fry it with egg. I have tried Vietnam zong zi before they are delicious but I haven’t tried the Vietnam rice cake you mentioned. Hope I can find it in US or I will go visit Vietnam next year.
Thanks for this enlightening videos. It is good to understand how the Lunar New Year is celebrated by different nation’s & ethnic groups. God bless you for this wonderful work.
@@conho4898 Ryukyu islands are a larger group of islands that include the Okinawa islands. All Okinawans are Ryukyuan, but not the other way around. Idk what the differences in new years traditions are though
Japan officially celebrate 3 days only, then commonly consider new year's week up to 7th Jan. Osoji means cleaning in general but year-end clearing action is referred as Oh-soji.
正月 pronounces Zhēng not zhèng. The Chinese character 羊 does not differ sheep or goat, Chinese people use goat as the traditional image of the year of 羊.
Fun facts: 1. People in southern China don't eat dumplings during Spring Festival (e.g., Guangdong, Hong Kong, Fujian, Shanghai, Sichuan, etc.), while northerners do (e.g., Beijing). 2. During the Spring Festival, only a few places in northern China perform lion dances, and the lions in the north and the south look entirely different. The furry and cute one we usually see is called "南狮", or "Southern Lion", while the Northern Lion(北狮) looks more creepy and mighty. 3. In Beijing, for example, the standard amount of red envelopes is 200 RMB or more. But in Guangdong, the red envelope is only a few yuan. 4. Chinese minorities do not celebrate the Chinese New Year (such as Yi, Zhuang, Tibetan, etc.) Only Han Chinese celebrate it(yes, hanfu is also han Chinese own culture)They all have their own festivals. So when you see an East Asian person, please don't assume that he/she celebrates Chinese New Year. 5.There are calligraphy majors in China's art school. When Chinese New Year comes, according to my calligraphy major friends, they are asked to write Chinese couplets by their parents(maybe Chinese painting students need to draw something too? I don't know) People use flour paste to paste Chinese couplets(those couplets smell so good)
Sorry some of that may be true for some people, but I literally lived in south of China. We did definitely eat dumplings. I think your fun facts could just be preferences that some prefer maybe. Also I knew many minorities in China, it's even part of my major, I am sure some people don't Celebrate Chinese new year, but some do. To say minorities don't celebrate is completely generalizing. Actually the more I comment, the more I realize everything you said sounds like the opinions of specific people and not actually facts
Is politically right nowadays to call Luna new year , but that based on the sacrifice /denial of the origin / Chinese New Year. Happy Luna New Year to the Vietnamese ! Happy Luna New Year to the Koreans! Happy Chinese New Year to the Chinese !
@Rebecca Matthews you are not Vietnamese right? Cuz all vietnamese know what bánh tét is and have heard the name Paris by Night at least once in their life
@@nuxa8549 i heard about paris by night from oversea vietnamese but it not commonly watch by central/northern vietnamese,mostly the people from the south-usually older generation. Most northern/central vietnamese watch "Táo Quân"
I’m confused about this whole “chinese new year” thing. I’m a korean and I know that my family name 愼 came from Song dynasty a thousand years ago. But I don’t consider myself chinese cause I don’t speak mandarin and I don’t relate to chinese culture at all. Just like that, how koreans celebrate the day has become so different from how chinese would. That’s why we don’t like to call it “chinese new year”. I don’t think “let’s say lunar new year” folks are trying to say that the lunisolar or whatever calendar didn’t originate from the place that is now China.
I don’t know why people insist on finding “differences”. It’s all the same holiday based on the same calendar, just celebrated with sometime wildly different local customs. It’s like saying different countries have different ways of celebrating Christmas makes them different holidays.
Great video but correction: the Vietnamese zodiac also replaces the ox with the water buffalo. This is a really important detail because the water buffalo is a very important part of our culture, and Southeast Asia in general. They plow our rice fields and if I’m not wrong they’ve even helped us in times of war. This is cultural diffusion in Vietnam which is culturally East Asian and geographically East Asian because the concept of the zodiac is very Chinese, but the water buffalo is very indigenous.
We all know where's 春节 (Chinese New year) came from, but seems like some people from southern korean peninsula disagree with that. On Jan 20, I was going to search something about "Korean" on google, right after I type in "Korean" before I hit enter, it pops out so called google predictions say "Korean New Year" and the date of Jan 22 2023, I was like WTH? Then I type in "Chinese" try to see if I can get to see "Chinese New Year" with the same date, guess what? I don't see the corresponding result, but only some usual predictions like "Chinese to English", "Chinese food near me", etc, you know what, this is really ridiculous!
Tôn Trung Sơn đã hủy bỏ tết nguyên đán,phá bỏ văn hoá nguyên thủy ,bây giờ lại muốn nhận vơ và xâm lược văn hoá,(lão Khổng tử).không có ghi chép gì về tểt nguyên đán,mà chỉ nói là người (a nam) họ mở hội nhảy múa vào ngày đầu năm mới mà thôi bạn nhé,cười phun cả cơm vào mặt người Trung quốc
I think one more difference of Vietnamese New Year comparing to others is that Tet Flower Culture. Rich or poor, they will try to buy some flowers (not only Peech Blossom and Yellow Arricot) to decorate their house. The street is filled with lots of color of flowers. In Taiwan, I haven't seen this activity.
I am from Henan province, the center of China, we will also buy a lot of flower trees for new year decoration, and mandarine tree which present fortune.
There is a slight error about Korea's Chinese zodiac. In Korean Chinese zodiac, the goat is replaced by sheep. I don't know the reason for its replacement, but i guess our ancestors felt sheeps to be more familiar and common animal than goats.
There used to be Sheeps in Korea. They aren't anymore... but yeah...so for 羊 which means goat and Sheep in China(but mostly goat meaning), we called sheeps 羊. Goat had korean name 염소(yum-so), still used unto this day. But if they wanted to write it in Chinese characters they would write it as 羔(which original means baby goat or lamb), or 髥牛(염우 Yum-Woo) which is unique korean writing way of Chinese back in the day. Yum would be a transcription Yum-so's Yum into closest chinese. And Woo would be borrowing from Chinese that has meaning of Cow. Korean Hanja writing system had similarities with Japanese kanji back in the days. So 髥牛 would be read as Yum-so instead of Yum-woo.
@@junainoakuma actually as a Chinese myself, I would say that at least in modern Chinese, 羊 is the common name of all the sheep and goats, not mainly for goat. To tell them apart, we usually call sheep 绵羊 and goat 山羊. 绵 basically means furry as sheep are often fed for their fur and 山 means mountain as goats live on mountains.
@@VivianLu You are right, I also heard so strangely, there is no such thing as this. In China, this zodiac sign does not distinguish between goats and sheep, including all breeds of sheep! Just like other zodiac signs, it is a general term for that species, such as dogs, mice, rabbits, pigs, horses, cows, sheep, monkeys, snakes, etc., even each one of them have more varieties, they are all included.
Ancient China was the cultural parent of Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam. After these three countries grew up, they developed their own unique culture on this basis！Therefore, many of these traditional cultural customs are very similar！
21:06 this is not how altar looks in Tet Nguyen Dan, and I can say that this altar must be in July or August because it has longan. We always have a big plate with 5 different types of fruits(a bunch of banana and grapefruit are mandatory in the north, and in the south custard apple-coconut-papaya-mango-fig are typical). Also Banh Chung(a traditional dish) is indispensable, we decorate the altar with different types of flower, sweet, some houses even decorate it with 2 sugar cane tree!
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In fact, in Vietnam we do not watch Paris By Night mainly on Tet holiday, instead, we have a program called Tao Quan, which is broadcast on VTV, the national television station every Lunar New Year. , it's a comedy show that brings together our country's outstanding issues from the past year.
Interesting. I guess that is how mainland Vietnamese can differ from the overseas Vietnamese diaspora community. I figured you guys would have your own program but really had no idea what it was until now.
As for the diaspora community, from memory, there were 2 other shows called Asia and Van Son which were just as popular as PBN but I don't think they're a thing anymore...? Anyway, thanks for sharing. Really interesting to know what Vietnamese people watch within Vietnam itself. :)
It depends. My family and I (from the South) have never watched Tao Quan, lol but we've heard of it (on the news actually). Maybe Paris by Night is out-dated but it's still a thing (in my family). I have some friends from the Mekong area and they said they hadn't known what Tao Quan was until I explained it to them. This is just my opinion so I don't wanna assume anything (*cough couldn't hold your breath there *cough)
@@namang3590 yes, my girlfriend family from the south, and they watch common comedy instead of Tao Quan.
@@namang3590 from central up north people watch tao quan , south have it own new year gala thing
Dân nam kì mới coi Thuý Nga
I wish Mongolian lunar new year was included in this video. Because we have a bit different customs too. We celebrate it according to our own lunar calendar, due to which every once in a few years we celebrate it 1 month apart from the other countries. We also have sheep year instead of goat year 😃
What is the difference between sheep and goat? In Chinese, only difference seems to be variants (Sheep = 綿羊；wooly 羊, goat = 山羊; mountain 羊). And the Year is just "羊"... which is more accurately Caprini/Ovis
@@Jestersage what are you talking about chincky boy ? what the sheep or goat ?
thank you for your share
@@Jestersage which one like h1gh, which one like h0.5gh
We Mongols never had a original calendar to be fair and honest
The "Paris by Night" show is not banned in Vietnam, it's not the show for New Year only , everyone can watch it if they like and mainly the oversea- Vietnamese watch it. Because of the development of variety shows on TV or the Internet, the VietNamese nowadays have many choices to choose what they want to watch, one of the most viewed TV shows in Vietnam on New Year Eve is "Táo Quân".
Banned ở đây có nghĩa là ko đc phát hành chính thức ông. mình xem là bản lậu phát hành trên mạng chứ có bao giờ thấy trên truyền hình cáp
@Rebecca Matthews that true. Maybe person who made this video interviewed Vietnamese people have lived in US for long time. He couldnt interviewed native people
Most Vietnamese are confused of what it means to be banned. Being banned means they can't install their HQ or official institutes to do their work in Vietnam. Asia Show and Paris By Night are therefore banned because they can't operate and capitalize Vietnam's market.
They all copy the Chinese because it's very colorful and its a long pass down tradition , but they want to be different.
Vietnam, Korea and Japan all have similar Chinese building and writing as well, but they all try to be different.
When you're burn fireworks on 4th of July, you're basically celebrating Chineses invention xD
A simple invention turns to fire arms and sending the first man to the moon. They all want to be different.
@Rebecca Matthews Paris By Night is a musical variety show that was conceived in Paris by Vietnamese immigrants who fled the communist regime in Vietnam in the late 70s and 80s. It was then moved to Orange County, California because of the much larger Vietnamese community there.
There are a couple of minor errors in the Japanese segment. 1) Japanese New Year still has a massive travel wave to visit family (Shinkansen bullet trains will be running at 120-130% capacity even with extra trains scheduled, domestic flights out of major airports in Tokyo/Osaka/Nagoya will be fully booked, and traffic jams extend for kilometers going out of cities). Of course, it depends on the family though (some will spend New Year with just the immediate family). 2) Lion Dances (Shishimai) can still occur depending on the location. Overall, I really enjoyed this video though, and it was a great presentation! Please keep making more videos! I enjoyed seeing the depth of traditional New Year culture in East Asia, and I hope there will be a bright and prosperous Year of the Ox ahead for everyone.
Happy New Year to all! Let's hope this year will be a great one and wishing everyone great wealth and better health.
we are wealthier in knowledge thanks to you. That is for certain.
Vietnam's activities: not "Paris by night". "Táo Quân" or "Gặp nhau cuối năm": This is a program made annually. For all Vietnamese!
Happy new year！あけましておめでとうございます！新年快楽！
@@duongtuanhiep I see. My Vietnamese friends are overseas Vietnamese, maybe that's why they didn't know about those shows.
@@CoolHistoryBros 正(zhēng)月, not 正(zhèng)月
Being Teochew Chinese-Vietnamese, my family has a mixture of traditions that kinda turned into a melting pot of traditions.
One thing you’ve missed though you did slightly touch on in the video was the 5 fruit offerings. The 5 fruits vary from region to region as you have mentioned but it is more than just with the local fruits that are available. Like the Chinese puns, the 5 fruits, here, are also puns. The most popular one in the South is custard apple (mảng cầu), coconut (dừa), papaya (đu đủ), mango (xoài) and figs (sung). The reason is that together, it spells out the pun “cầu sung vừa đủ xài” which roughly translates to “may we be well-off and have just enough to spend.” Other than that, a must-have fruit during this festive season is watermelon. If you were to have only one fruit, it must be watermelon. Once again, the word for melon dưa is pronounced fairly similarly to vừa in southern Vietnamese but other than that, the inside is red. I'm sure no extra explanation required there haha
In terms of the Vietnamese rice cakes, you’ve mentioned the most popular cakes in both north and south Vietnam but there’s an actual legend behind them as well. Every tradition and food during this celebration has a significant meaning and reason. Not so much bánh tét since that derived off the original bánh chưng but, long story short, bánh dày and bánh chưng are significant for its meaning and symbolism. Whereas bánh dày is round to represent the heavens/sky, bánh chưng is square in shape to represent the earth. I won't go through the tale so you'd just have to search up "the legend of banh chung and banh day". They are basically VERY traditional rice cakes.
As for southern Chinese culture, in particular Teochew Chinese, alongside ang pows, mandarins (referring to the fruit) are also exchanged. This is because the word for mandarin (once again, I'm referring to the fruit) in Teochew is 橘 (gek) which sounds similar to 吉 (gik) for auspiciousness.
Teochew new year rice cakes are usually red or pink in colour. Popular cakes include 紅龜粿 (ang ku kueh - red tortoise cake) and 紅桃粿 (ang to kueh - red peach cake) aka 飯粿 (perng kueh - rice cake). Both cakes represent longevity with the character 壽 etched onto them as we believe that there’s a magical heavenly peach that could extend your life. As for the tortoises, they are known to live for hundreds of years thus making them symbols of longevity.
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Detailed, i like it
I'm from Foshan (Guangdong), I remember when I was a kid, we will go to the flower streets together as a family (行花街) to purchase mandarin plants and cherry blossoms to decorate our house. We would also hang red envelopes and LED lights onto the cherry blossom branches to make it look prettier, like a Christmas tree. Kids will also get to carry golden windmills (风车) when they are at the flower streets or when they go to temples to pray. During the lantern festival (on the 15th day os new year), we will carry lanterns to see the lantern shows (元宵灯会), watch cantonese opera (粤剧) and play 猜灯谜 which is a traditional game to guess the word of the phrase on the lantern (riddles). We also have the tradition to not sleep at the night transiting to the morning of new year, which is called 守岁 or 熬年, usually the adults do that and they scare the kids (including me) saying 年兽 (a monster that comes at new year) will come at night so they need to stay awake to prevent the kids not to be eaten or kidnaped. But tbh the kids still couldn't fall asleep at that night because firecrackers and fireworks are non-stop lol. We also need to wake up early to visit our ancestral houses to serve incense to our ancestors with rice wine, white rice cakes, chicken, fruits etc. Then we visit door to door to say our blessings to our relatives, kids will then receive their red pockets. It's a really tiring day because no sleep at night and constant human interactions, that's why as a kid i enjoy the night on new years day where all the kids get to light up sparklers, watch fireworks, play hide and seek and just have a fun time with same age kids altogether.
I miss those days since I've never felt the same way after I immigrated, it's still fun to watch dragon and lion dance at China town and have dinner at a Chinese restaurant with my family, but it's just not the same.
Yeah, and he did mention the regional differences vary since the provinces are so big in China
日常羡慕广东人把传统习俗保留得这么好
We all miss the old days.
@@suktan8896 南方宗族文化保存的好
Omg I forgot about 行花街. We used to do that when I was little.
For Vietnamese, just some corrections:
1. The ancient word for rabbit does not sound like cat. It's because the rabbit zodiac is 卯, which sounds like 貓 lol....
2. Bánh chưng and bánh tét are both eaten in both north and south. They usually go together, not in different areas.
Also the most distinct difference between northern and southern Vietnamese Tet is that the north decorates pink cherry flowers everywhere, while the south decorates yellow apricot flowers everywhere. This gives each region very color-coded distinctions lol
The north also watches a comedy skit called Táo quân 灶君 religiously every year. The skit is a politically and cultural commentary on the year that just passed through the story of the Kitchen god reporting earthly matters to the Jade emperor.
But it's rare to see bánh chưng in the south though. I usually eat bánh tét.
@@dangphucuong is it rare to see bánh tét in the north tho?
@@conho4898 idk I’m not a Northerner
@@dangphucuong exactly.
Táo quân 灶君 is also called 灶神/灶王/灶王爺 in China , he will return to the heaven and report to the Jade emperor about everything happened in the house at the end of the passed year.
Dude must have a PhD in East Asian Studies to know this much about East Asian culture and language. I humbly bow to you bro :))
China culture circle. Including Singapore, these countries using chopsticks are not poor in economy. Except Vietnam and North Korea.
@Vooltaar Starman China is still a developing country. Hope every country in Asia would be better than today~
@Vooltaar Starman Agree
@@dztiger6822 Vietnam is not poor bro, they only got freed economy in 1995, they are doing well despite being freed late
@@dztiger6822 ???? Vietnam is not poor. We are on the way to developed nation
What's funny is the similarities are really similar, but the differences vary even within the country. Check out all the Vietnamese commenters pointing out which show they actually watch at new years! So, sure they're not identical, but as in the west, it sure seems like not even 2 Chinese or 2 Vietnamese could agree on what New Years involves! I suppose as humans we often focus on what differentiates us and makes us more individual or distinguishes our group from others, rather than the things we do that are virtually the same.
Thanks for giving us a greater sense of that nuance. 😊
(Tôn Trung Sơn) đã bỏ tết nguyên đán,phá hủy những nét văn hoá được cho là không thuộc về Trung quốc
@@oanhinhthi6758 Ông ta có thể đã sai lầm, và những lãnh đạo sau đã sửa sai cho ông ấy. rõ ràng ngày lễ Nguyên Đán dựa trên lịch Trung Quốc thì tại sao không thuộc về Trung Quốc?
All of China's history, culture, and customs are recorded in historical literature and archaeology written by ancient people, while South Korea takes science fiction historical novels written by modern people as real history. There is no historical literature written by ancient people, and there is no archaeological evidence. The funniest thing is that there are Chinese materials in Korean museums that prove that Korea used to be a vassal state of China. Koreans treat it as a treasure, but they cannot understand the content inside and do not recognize it as a vassal state of China! Lastly, why does South Korea claim everything to be its own instead of North Korea? Didn't North Korea and South Korea use to be the one country?
The official/formal way to refer to the Lunar New Year in Indonesia is Tahun Baru Imlek. Imlek being the Hokkien pronunciation of the Yinli calendar mentioned in the video, and Tahun Baru meaning new year in our country's language; Bahasa Indonesia. However, just within Chinese Indonesians circles, we often say Sincia (新正 in Chinese characters). Sin Tjhoen Kiong Hie to my fellow Chinese Indonesians, and 新年快樂 to everyone else :)
13:36 we call the first day “大年初一”（literally the first day of the spring festival)
It was called 元旦during the Ming and Ching dynasties.
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Historically, Japan used to celebrate according to the traditional Chinese Lunisolar (Lunar) Calendar. However, during the Meiji Era, the government moved towards Westernization and adopted the Gregorian calendar beginning on January 1 for the new year. However, They still are using the Chinese Lunisolar (Lunar) Calendar for agriculture purposes.
@Huan Nguyen not saying that they don't celebrate lunar new year any more ,but they have moved most of the festivals including lunar new year according to Gregorian calendar, so the new year of Japan is now same with the western countries
So thats why no holiday in lunar new year.
Hmmm, i thought Japan celebrate some traditional holidays wearing traditional Japanese cloth (和服)? They use western calendar to decide the dates?
@@jul5126 和服 comes from China in the Tang dynasty. Japanese followed Chinese Fashion, Hairstyle and makeup. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimono
@@leallan69 They were inspired but not necessarily the same. And traditional Japanese makeup is more intense than those from the Tang Dynasty.
Thanks @Cool History Bros!
I’m from Saigon Vietnam
Malaysian chinese celebrate this event as 华人农历新年，Translation usually goes to chinese new year (it really meant a lot by calling this way) until recently lunar new year due to some weird habit happens across internet, tradition or celebrate method origin are from 福建or 广东。Your info is certainly accurate at a general level.
The only thing that i am not satisfy with is the translation "Lunar New Year", i always hope it will get a accurate one since the it calculate through 24节气，the date that measure from Sun and Moon, yet the Lunar only meant for "Moon".
Actually, the name Lunar New Year was only "appeared " in recent years, due to the Koreans don't like the word "Chinese" in the Chinese New Year name, because they don't want people to think it's originated and invented by the Chinese people and how much they had been influenced by Chinese culture (it hurts their Ego). So they had sent "letters" to "cry" with the UN, the big Internet media companies like Google, Facebook, Twitters...to change the Chinese New Year to "Lunar New Year", (with the excuse as them Korea and many Asian countries also celebrated it...) which as you said is a very inaccurate one, and to me, a disrespectful one to the people who invented the festival.
Totally agree with you, Chinese New Year is inclusive, but lunar new year actually exclusive. I say Chinese New Year since I was born, not because Chinese people so named Chinese New Year, because Chinese traditional calendar. I don’t like lunar new year, it’s political correct , change lunar new year is culture appropriation.
couldn't agree more. the spring festival follows the lunisolar calendar, not the lunar one. it really doesn't make sense when foreigners refer to chinese new year as "lunar new year," unless they're excluding it
Malaysian Chinese here too.. Happy Chinese New Year to all Malaysian Chinese...
You're totally right.
You missed a few points, but I'll let it go since I think this is a Hanoian's thing only.
We have something called "New Year's Eve Bath".
People will attend the market and buy special herbs to make the bathwater.
We also visit temples around Hanoi on the first day of the new year, it is a must to visit all four guardian temples in Hanoi, other regions of the North visit different temples. Each family will have their own list of temples to visit, mine always visit the literature temple.
We send fish to Kitchen gods by releasing fishes to ponds and rivers so that they can ride the fish to heaven, reporting what has happened that year. We stay up all night to wait for the new year and then eat the offerings we made, tell our family about the previous year. Sprinkle rice and salt to the road for... I'm not sure what's that for.
We don't wear red for New Years'? According to my parents, it is a recent thing, we simply buy new clothes. Paris By Night is only popular with the older generation, we as a younger demographic aren't a fan of Bolero. We still watch Tao Quan tho, last year they broke my heart announcing that they won't be showing it, basically a fun, social-commentary comedy using the concept of Táo Quân or the kitchen gods.
one last thing, the Banh Chung was created during Hung Vuong times, it was used to celebrate New Year's harvest...I think.
yeah, I'm from Sai Gon and I haven't heard of the "New Year Eve's bath" so it's probably a Northern tradition. The salt and rice I think is for "cô hồn" (wondering sprits). I think it's similar to burning paper/cardboard things as gift/offerings to our ancestors (?)
And there's another thing too, people avoid sweeping the house because they're scared of sweeping away New year's luck.
I come from China, in fact, some parts of China also have the custom of bathing on New Year's Eve, my hometown is like this, usually on the night of the New Year's Eve with mugwort leaves（chinese：艾叶） boiling water to take a bath.From what you say, I find that the customs of North Vietnam and China are quite similar.Those who believe in Buddhism will go to the temple to burn incense and pray on the first day of New Year. Many people will get up very early in order to burn incense early.
@@ningzou3391 Interesting! Do you guys release fish for New Year too? Just wondering.
@@laurnnguyen OOh, about sweeping the floor, we still do that in the North, it's just that we'll sweep it towards ourselves, to avoid sweeping fortune away from one self.
@@baochi456 ohhhh so that's why my paternal side of the family still sweeps, I didn't know that b4. The more you know i guess-
People also sweeps but don't discard the trash, they just keep the dirty stuff in some corner of the house 'til after the 15th day. Which is neat lol
새해 복 많이 받으세요!
17:05 I think you made a mistake here. Rice dumplings are for Duanwu Festival. In the southern China, people eat year cake, spring roll or tangyuan.
所以屈原是中国北方人吗
@@HaleVisse 屈原是南方人，但这并不影响中国南方人过年不吃粽子。而视频内 17:05 提到中国南方春节吃粽子，这是一个非常低级的错误。
Dude. Thanks for creating this video. I was just thinking of this when my family and I were in Vietnam last week. Vietnam has the Year of the Cat but no Rabbit.. I found that very interesting and tried to find out more.
I find it amazing that the Chinese Lunar Calendar (农历) is actually incredibly precise at predicting the changing of the seasons in China's core (the timezone that aligns with Beijing's). On the days that the Lunar calendar marks as 'Entering Spring' (立春) or 'Entering Autumn' (立秋), you can sense the immediate change in the climate, as if the weather is actually aligned with and directly responding to the calendar itself. This is very different from the west, where the Gregorian Calendar has only a very limited correlation with the change of the seasons.
The moon always full on the 15th of each lunar month!
Westerners used to use blooming of certain flowers etc. to mark when certain agricultural work was to commence.
@@eveleung8855 As well as in mid-autumn festival, the moon is always full, big and bright
It's not Beijing, it's Henan and Shaanxi, the capital of ancient Chinese dynasties. The weather there is exactly the same as the (lunar calendar). It tells people when to grow rice and when to mature
@麻辣拌 bulls. Ancient chinese were nomadics who constantly travelled. Confucious travelled southwarda to lac viet and copied their rice cultivation and celebration of tet aka lunar new year.
Thank you for the video! It is nice to educate yourself how uniquely New Year is celebrated in different countries. At the same time we are all connected in one way :)
I don’t see how “ Uniquely” they are, the Zodiac animals, the 福🧧, the red colour the calendar, basically learnt everything and call it “unique”
20:30 The Vietnamese Zodiac actually has TWO differences! It's the Water Buffalo instead of the Ox.
There're also some differences between North and South is that the North usually displays pink peach blossoms while in the South it's the yellow apricot flower. Also, Paris by Night is only famous by the Vietnamese refugees intentionally, the people in the country would watch a comedy show called "Gặp Nhau Cuối Năm" (End-Year Meeting Gala) or colloquially called "Táo Quân" (灶君)
@Rebecca Matthews He clearly say that's the show is for oversea Vietnamese! It's had been consider illegal in Vietnam for sometime so nobody admit they watched it to you! Its well know in Southern Vietnam and an Audiophile than the North due to high quality of music! The name " Thuý Nga Paris by Nigth show" because the producer original start it in Paris, France! Now they moved to USA!
Mongolian and Tibetan also celebrate Lunar New Year similar to Chinese New Year.
Friendly advise! Do not simply categorize for other people’s heritage specially if you are not part of the culture! Ignorant europeans “explained” various Mongol tribes and by doing that “segregated” the people!
@@gantulgaganhuyag717 Thank you!
Interesting.
As far as I know, tibetan celebrate base on tibetan calendar.
@@alanchen8272 Losar is always coincide with Lunar New Year
Malaysia and Singapore also celebrating Chinese New year because many Chinese live here.
Not live
BORN HERE
@@cocaineminor4420 ？
In Nepal too lunar new year is widely celebrated. in Nepal it is called Lhosar. in the month of December Tibetan lunar year (Tamu lhosar) is celebrated by gurung then in the month of January / February Tibetan lunar year (sonam lhosar) is celebrated by tamang and in the month of February / March Tibetan lunar year (gyalpo lhosar) is celebrated by Sherpa, hyolmo, monks, Tibetans and others. 🇳🇵
china was like rome in europe other nations around rome wanted to be romans and used roman culture vietnam japan korea culture all heavily based on chinese culture
Yes, but only some things are Chinese. I think we should make it clear.
We don't see Italians going around and claiming every European thing came from Italia.
@@KaceyRightman2023 basically everything 😅
@@KaceyRightman2023 Rome vs Italy. Those are two separate things. Roman Empire and civilization gone. People don't speak Latin anymore, nor do they use the language. The Chinese traditions and culture that has been around for thousands of years still continue. I mean, do Italians still worship Pagan gods like Jupiter, Mars, Diana, etc.
@@KaceyRightman2023Rome has long been destroyed, Italy is not Rome's successor, but China has not been destroyed
@@KaceyRightman2023If Rome were still alive and maintained strong national strength, do you think it would claim
I’m from the South VietNam . Sài Gòn is always the best. I miss and love Sai Gon forever. Chúc Mừng Năm Mới everyone.
It's sad to say these 4 countries always give strongly hatred and wary to each others while they have similar culture. And they also don't feel good when westerners compare their culture to each others.
Yeah. But unfortunately, near countries each other have to be bad relationship. Beacause almost countries history relation is remembered as many 'wars'. And a long time ago, war is occupied only from near country.
Of course, good relationship is good. But near countries' bad relationship is not odd at all. We just have to grateful for that that 3 countries are not being at war.
中国、朝鮮は「中華文明圏（＝儒教圏）」であって、自国至上、周辺国蔑視の華夷秩序意識を国家イデオロギーとして持っています。つまり西欧近代の法の下の平等に立脚した対等な国家関係を認めず、周辺国を自分たちより劣った存在と蔑視／差別します。それに反発するのは当然です。
@뉸뉴냔냐 Koreans are giving hate speech to Japanese people. Don't overturn the logic. Confucian country = South Korea discriminates Japanese as inferior. Confucian nations do not accept the idea of equality before the law. The nations are ranked in a hierarchical relationship.
@@deelak-ss9262 blame your ancestors for murdering & torturing millions of Asians all around Asia with their satanic brutality. For a start, apologize and stop worshipping your “war heroes” if you want people to forgive you
1872
Government of Japan: "December 3rd is the New Year this year."
Japanese people: "OK."
I read some book which says it was because the Meiji government didn't have money to pay the salary of the last month to civil servants accross the country. Then they adopt Gregorian calendar and the last month of that year on the traditional calendar just disappeared. I don''t know whether it was true or just a joke.
@@jiayili6481 いいえ違います。脱亜入欧論です。
@@jiayili6481 旧暦は日本では気候が1ヶ月ほどずれています。春分はまだ寒いし、秋分はまだ暑いし、実際の季節感と合いません。それも理由の一つになって、旧暦は廃止されました。
Your pronunciations of the different languages were quite good.
But his english have indian accent
His English has Guangdong/Holkien accent, I am pretty sure he is chinese Malaysian/Singaporean with Southern China ancestor
No, he has a Chinese accent.
@@novemberwills842 He unexplicitly revealed in his other videos that he's Australian Chinese-Indonesian.
He slaughtered the vietnamese tho
Each country, each region can be different in detail but in general has highlighted the main features.
Looking forward to other videos from you.
In Vietnamese Zodiac, there are 2 differences that instead of rabbit, we have cat and we have buffalo instead of ox
Thank you for this awesome videos. I learned so much from this video. I really appreciate that you include Vietnam in this. A lot of Eat Asian history focused channels like to skip Vietnam due to the country popularity in Asian Pop-culture is non existence.
As a South East Asian country geographically, Vietnam is really an East Asian culture country (Although nowadays we use Latin-based writing system,, we used to use Chinese writing and later chữ Nôm, another writing script similar to Han Chinese script)
i usually see some restaurants using traditional characters
People say Vietnam is a mixture of East and Southeast, but sadly I feel that neither of the group actually accepts Vietnam as one of them.
@@viett.nguyen9319 sounds like Vietnam is the country in the middle of nowhere, but I like this a lot :D
@@VinhNguyen-ce5if the southeast asians think we're culturally different. The east asians think we're too poor to be one of them, which is condescending. Well, let it be. I guess Vietnam just needs to be herself and posperous.
@@viett.nguyen9319 as an overseas Vietnamese I never thought it would be so much of an issue whether Vietnam is shoved into the East Asian Box or the South East Asian Box. I find it rather ridiculous too to determine geographical or cultural affiliation by prosperity. I learned a new lesson today and I hope that Vietnam will blossom in it‘s own glory without being hung up on where to belong to.
Great podcast to explaining Lunar year 👍
People always ask why is the cat not included in the zodiac when other animals like the dog is included. Not sure if this is legit but they say there was a story about the cat and the mouse being best friends and they promised each other that they will wake up early and report to the jade emperor so that they would get the first few spots on the calendar, however the next day, the mouse woke up and left on his own while the cat was asleep and he ended up getting the first spot on the zodiac, the cat on the other hand woke up late and ended up being the 13th animal to arrive, which means he does not get a spot since there were only 12 slots, and from that day onwards, the cat held an eternal grudge against the mouse and attacked it every time they met.
Because cat is not a native animal to China I think
As someone who lives in korea this is mostly correct however these days people dont do all these activities as much. Its slowly becoming a travel holiday and less about tradition
Thank You For This Informative Video! Happy Lunar New Year From Philippines ^^
After watching this video, me as a Malaysian Chinese feel like want to call the Japanese, Koreans and Vietnamese my brothers.
Thank you! I hope there's more Asians with the same sentiment as yours. It's sad & disheartening after reading so much hateful racist comments from other Asians.
Brooooo !
@@denverphan88 , Good night, Bro. (at Malaysian time 11.20 pm)
Look, we all d same SINOSPHERE. To argue differently is to split our (black) hairs. And to play into our enemies hands!
Hi, bro!
20:27 The second animal in Vietnam is not a ox but a water buffalo
Đặc điểm chung của các quốc gia này là người dân chăm chỉ, tham vọng, và phát triển nhanh nếu có cơ hội, và tính cách, tính tình có vẻ khép kín hơn so với các quốc gia khác ở Châu Á. Và họ có tinh thần dân tộc rất cao. Và họ ưa chuộng làn da trắng và thân hình thon gọn, luôn đặt vấn đề giáo dục lên hàng đầu.
Theres so much things to tell about Vietnamese Tet that we cant never list them all out and many of them are quite unique
On 23 Dec (Lunisolar) b4 Tết, we free the kois and bring traditional dishes on to the altar for the Ông Công Ông Táo (theres a story behind this, in fact there are stories behind everything oh dear...)
Then we do the cleaning yes 👌
Lunar New Year night: theres firework all over the country, and grammas/moms always pray in front of the altar with another bunch of good food, fruits and treats and blah blah blah lots of things ✨✨
Every dishes goes on the altar are usually traditional even the fruit and alcohol and the settings...
The person who "xông đất": basically the first person who enter the house in the new year will bring luck to the family (in my house its alway my dad right in the lunar new year eve after he watched the firework)
The 3 following days are when ppl celebrate, go visit relative, date, going to the temples, vacation and have fun the most namely Mùng 1, Mùng 2, Mùng 3 (day1, day2, day3), and children stay with their parents and/or grandparents house for all these days.
After that everything kinda cool down a bit but we still have another giving offerings to the altar on mid Jan lunisolar called Cúng ngày Rằm tháng Giêng shorten to Rằm tháng Giêng.
There are also rules on Tet like not to cut hair, not to clean the house for the first few days so on and so on...
Red envelope yes, new clothes yes, blossom and yellow apricot flower yes yes yes... blah blah... 👌
Lunar night TV shows: paris by night used to be my childhood but its kinda not a thing anymore. Im north VN so all i know is that from 2003 theres a gala show called Gặp nhau cuối năm (Year-end meeting) better known as Táo Quân (if u rmb ông công ông táo i mentioned above). Its a comedy (or should i say parody? they mock and make fun of the issues happenned in the year b4 urgh every year's were masterpieces) and music afterwards. In fact im quite shocked when i heard souther VN dont watch it i mean Táo Quân is legit guys 🥺👌✨
Your bánh chưng bánh tét part: acceptable
Games:... ehm... i mean we do have a bunch of traditional games, just that we dont play those every year or play it like a habbit in new year celebration :// sad but true, im afraid its fading by the time 😔
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Yeah thats all i can think of atm...
No, it's lame and cringe af but I like some skits and actors 🤭🤣 sorry, not sorry
@@jannamebaotocuaruneterra6211 it can be lol. But it's like a part of the tradition tho
Oh wow I learn so much from this video. Thank for sharing❤
About the game in vietnam. Mostly we dont play Bàu cua Tôm Cá stuff, we play western cards(Tú lơ khơ) with our own rules. Tho it is not traditional but has been practiced in recent decades
They’re not the same but they all were influenced from Chinese New Year. Subsequently, different countries came up with their own varied practices
Korean: In ancient times, north of the Yangtze River in China was Korean territory.
Vietnamese: In ancient times south of the Yangtze River was the territory of Vietnam.
Chinese: Then I am a fish living in the Yangtze River.
Fact: Korea and Vietnam were tributary state of China🎉
@@shitoumantou592 Thank you all for respecting history, because Koreans like to steal Chinese culture. They harass websites all over the world through the Internet Army (VANK). Modify the entry. What I want to say is that Chinese characters were introduced to Korea about 1800 years ago, and to Vietnam about 1900 years ago. The earliest record of the Spring Festival in Chinese unearthed cultural relics is the record of the Nian beast inscribed in the cultural relics 3,700 years ago. Both Korean and Vietnamese characters are written in Chinese characters. Chinese characters originated in Shaanxi and Henan in China. So which country did the Spring Festival originate from? Go to Wikipedia yourself. I hope that Yunnan and South Korea can come up with cultural relics and authentic historical books for an international open debate.
The earliest Lunar New Year celebrations in Vietnam are believed to have been brought by Zhao Tuo, a Chinese general of the Qin Dynasty, the first king of South Vietnam and founder of the Triệu Dynasty, more than 2,000 years ago. _ _ _ _ In 204 BC, Zhao Tuo (General of Qin State, Shaanxi Province, China) established the Nanyue Kingdom. _ _ _ _ Now Guangxi, Guangdong and northern Vietnam. Traditions like Chinese policy, culture, Lunar New Year etc. were brought during his rule over Vietnam.
@@junweipan2494 -LOL. Cung chúc tân xuân năm Quý Mão. Nothing to do with Chinese New Year. Have to say you know a bit more about Vietnamese than most ignorant Chinese in China. They are so uneducated doesn't even know where Vietnam is, and I'm talking city people.
@@nwbest4336 I think that the moment Chinese Qin Dynasty army introduced Chinese characters to Vietnam, it is possible to bring Spring Festival to Vietnam. The ancestors of the Vietnamese should be the descendants of Qin Shihuang in Shaanxi, China. If you don't believe it, you can see that the cultural relics unearthed in Vietnam over 100 years ago are all Chinese characters. In addition, if I guessed correctly, in order to get rid of the influence of China, Vietnam adopted a new Latin alphabet, which made it impossible for Vietnam to understand its own history. In fact, like South Korea, South Korea does not want to be colonized by China in the past. I may say that Koreans and Vietnamese are not happy, but if you respect the historical facts, you can know the real history recorded in the unearthed documents as long as you restore the Chinese characters. If you don’t believe it, you can go to the Vietnam Museum to see the cultural relics inside. Know if I'm right.
The rest of Asia: Yay twice holidays of new year (or el-fitr/songkran/diwali).
Japan: ...
I would prefer to abandon it like Japan
Prefer not get influence from china again. Japan have its own culture. Korea vietnam very close to china
@@yogadarmawan3051 Sure, sure. We all know well that Japan is a European country, not an Asia country. And we are very glad we are different from you guys😆
@@tqhung169 bù lại nghỉ đông sướng hơn nghỉ tết
@@yogadarmawan3051 As long as you guys keep producing JAV, I'm fine if Japan is European country :)
Very cool video, I'm a total outsider from these cultures, so it's all new and I thought you made it very in depth and at the same time, easy to follow understand. Thanks so much bros!
Thanks a lot for making this video!
Thank you Coop History Bros. I always wanted to know the diff between Japanese and Chinese New Year.
Your Channel is the best.
Japanese also have the New Year migration, which is called "Kisei Rush". But it is more considered as a traffic problem instead of a part of celebration.
"Tsun Yun" in China is also considered a traffic problem as well.
别忘了日本古代属于中国附属国身份。属于中国广义领土一部分！
@@鹏郭-r6b 是的，中国现在是满族的领土。
Korea and Vietnam adopted the Chinese calender so many hundred years ago, so natrually the new Year they celebrate is undoubtedly the Chinese New Year, which means "the New Year's day on the Chinese Calendar".
Happy Chinese New Year☺️新春快乐，虎年大吉🐯
I greatly appreciate this video and will be coming back to it when Seollal gets here in February. My family has a South Korean exchange student and I want to help her feel more at home by bringing the celebration to her. I want to do it justice so I’ve started researching months in advance.
4:16 Japanese 8th zodiac isn't Goat(山羊), but Sheep(羊). Maybe confused to chinese.
9:59 Also Different to china, Korean 8th zodiac is Sheep(양), not Goat(염소).
羊 is the general calling for all sheep, goat and all sheep class animals. Such as 山羊，绵羊 they are all 羊(sheep class). In Chinese, it mean the entire class instead of a specific subclass.
Actually, in Japan, we say: hitsuji doshi(year of the sheep). But for the traditional zodiac, we have a different character.未.
羊is an animal.
@@matf5593 hahaha bro I think 未 is referring to the time period of 羊 in 天干地支
I don't know where they get the idea that in the Chinese zodiac 羊 is a goat, I think Chinese people don't tell them apart in zodiac. it is fine to use both goat or sheep, it doesn't matter. The zodiac toys are usually sheep not goat though as sheep toys are more round and furry XD
@@boxyyy7329 - exactly. I'm really puzzled as to how westerners think the Chinese zodiac 羊 is only the goat. It can be either goat or sheep. But if it has to be just one, then I'd say the sheep more than the goat, because (1) I've seen sheep depicted more often in Chinese zodiac art, and (2) the character descriptions of 羊 zodiac sign (e.g. gentle, obedient, etc) sound more like sheep than goat.
You missed the sweet treats for Vietnamese New Year's which are very Uniquely reminders of Tet..Those are certain candies or sweet treats made from fruits, gingers, coconut and etc..Another thing for Vietnamese's Tet Characteristics was roasted watermelons seeds with red dyed..For foods, it depends on regions..Watermelons often the common fruits for offering amongst others..In terms of games, as far as I can remembered, the 6 characters games and playing cards..Regardings to flowers, the yellow chrysanthemums are also popular ..Regardings to the glutinous rice cakes, they go together square and round shapes not separately..As other's comments posted, there was a legendary story behinds those shapes..
Same as Cantonese with all the candied fruit, nuts & seeds, except it's winter melon in Southern China, & not watermelon (that's clearly for the summer but I guess it's warmer even more down south in Vietnam LOL).
Nowadays people prefer chocolate or modern candy.
if not mistaken, it's winter melon seeds vice watermelon seeds.
Buying your new year's traditional food from a CVS is not the normjal thing to do in Japan at all. Usually students and people who work in Tokyo may go back to their home prefectures. Only if you're stuck in Tokyo (for example) and work for television or something is the CVS an option, i.e. you might be working on a New Year's program, in which case your New Year's is screwed. Otherwise there are more glamorous options for buying the replacement for the lacquered box with traditional home made food in it. Various restaurants may also have their New Year's menu once they open again after the first day of the year or on the 4th. The traditional New year's is called 旧正月, which follows the Chinese calendar.
牛and羊are simply general character for cow or sheep like creatures. 牛could be ox, buffalo, cow. 羊could mean sheep or goat.
Also, Because Chinese new year holiday is about two weeks, we have to visit family members too, which is 拜年. Usually starting with closest family members first, then cousins etc.
In Chinese zodiac , it is the goat 羊。Sheep is not common in China. The term for sheep is 绵羊 (literally 'cotton goat').
@@jivvyjack7723 yeah, and the term for goat is 山羊, not just 羊. Like Paul said, the character 羊 itself doesn't specify goat or sheep. It doesn't matter whether sheep or goats are more common in China, in modern China you can find artwork and decorations of both sheep and goats during the year of the 羊, and if you search for "羊" in Chinese emojis, you will most likely get a picture of a sheep.
@@catsidhe181 Thanks for the clarification. Probably southerners associate the 羊character more with goat than sheep. For us, 山羊 refers to the mountain goat, not the farm variety. And the emoji I see is a slim 4-legged animal with 2 horns. Maybe that caused my confusion. 😄
My man here is a legend. You deserve more attentions.
Happy new year!
I am from south China, Fujian. We do not eat zong zi( sticky rice) in Chinese New Year. We eat the red sugar rice cake, we also have white color rice cake but we usually made it in salty flavor.
I am third generation Hokkien living in Vietnam and now in the U.S. I am curious about red sugar rice cakes and white color rice cakes you mentioned because I don't know if they are the same cakes as we do eat. We eat zong zi, nian gao, fa gao, Bánh tét (Vietnamese rice cake) and sometimes red bean cakes. I think some cakes are Hokkien, Teochew (as offshoot of Minnan) and Cantonese related.
@@dpalgo hi brother, I am from Fuzhou, Fujian, which is the east part of Fujian, mindong. Fujian is very diverse province, different regions in the same city might have different food and dialect. So I am not sure if we have the same food since I have never been to other part of Fujian. The red sugar rice cake(nian gao) is the round dark color rice cake showed in this video, the white color rice cake(bai guo, we also call it nian ago too) is sort of Japanese rice cake but we cut it in slice and stir fried it with vegetables and meat or seafood. Some people like to cook this white color rice cake with seafood broth. In Fujian we eat nian gao(red one) during Chinese New Year, and the white color one is just something we eat in the daily life. Before Chinese New Year, I believe in Chu Xi we eat this small rice ball made by rice flour in the soup that were cooked by seafood, meat, and vegetables. And in Yuan Xiao( Lantern festival, last day of new year celebration) we eat the rice ball made by rice flour and filled with meat, and we call it, yuan xiao. For people that like sweet flavor, they would cook this ball stuffed with peanut, sugar, and sesame seeds. And we call this sweet type of rice ball, tang yuan.
@@dpalgo and in mindong, we do not eat fa gao I believe this is the food from Cantonese speaking area and Minnan in Fujian. But we do have red bean cake and green bean cake.
I am also 3rd generation Hokkien from Vietnam, the 年糕 that i knew is brown color, it normally fry or fry with eggs. 发糕 is in white color, or yellow color (yellow one normally is from Cantonese). Bánh tét bánh chưng (Vietnamese sticky rice cake) is Vietnamese traditional cake, not Chinese traditional cake, so you do rarely see bánh tét bánh chưng in pure Vietnamese Chinese families. And 粽子 is the traditional cake in Mid-year Festival (端午节 Tết Đoan Ngọ), not Lunar New Year.
@@niki12621 you know, I was amazed how you two still know about the Chinese culture and type Chinese. A lot of Chinese 2nd generation born in America do not know how to speak and write Chinese. Do you guys attend Chinese class after school in Vietnam? I think 发糕is a traditional cake that Cantonese people eat during the New Year, I am not sure if that is what people in south part of Fujian eat, because I know they have different culture with Mindong 闽东. I think the brown color rice cake is the red sugar cake, there are several ways you can eat it. You can steam it, or boil it in soup with sugar, or just like you mentioned you can fry it or fry it with egg. I have tried Vietnam zong zi before they are delicious but I haven’t tried the Vietnam rice cake you mentioned. Hope I can find it in US or I will go visit Vietnam next year.
Vietnamese people on every Tet: Hey, Happy New Year
Vietnamese people on 1968 Tet: Not this year
有一说一，哪怕ROV不灭亡它也成不了ROK或者ROC，ROK的经济崛起和日本关联很深的，没有1968的春节攻势或者说如果PRV没有统一越南，也不过是有两个越南，和经济关联不大。而且至少现阶段来看，PRC和DPRK都是很想消灭南方政权的。
@@nyleeu2632 English would be better :))
@@justhuy7960 OK, if I meet you again I'll speak English at that time
@@nyleeu2632 hope you're a girl, then that would be destiny :)
Vietnamese from 1789: *laugh*
Japan use new calendar Gregorian (西暦) but refer to Lunar calendar as 旧历 旧暦(thx to tyKe P)
Thank to your additional explanation. 旧暦 would be more accurate as Japanese.
Awesome channel 🙌
Thanks for this enlightening videos. It is good to understand how the Lunar New Year is celebrated by different nation’s & ethnic groups.
God bless you for this wonderful work.
Incidentally，Lunar Calendar is also known as HuangLi 黄历（multiple editions available for dl too）
Although Japanese no longer use the Lunar New Year, Ryukyuans in southern Japan still use it for traditional use!
I think he did mention it in the vid. Happy new year!
You meant Okinawans
@@jhca4671 what's the difference?
@@conho4898 Ryukyu islands are a larger group of islands that include the Okinawa islands. All Okinawans are Ryukyuan, but not the other way around. Idk what the differences in new years traditions are though
Japan officially celebrate 3 days only, then commonly consider new year's week up to 7th Jan.
Osoji means cleaning in general but year-end clearing action is referred as Oh-soji.
This is funny, chinese celebrate for 15 days, I believe Korean, Vietnameseand Malaysians celebrate for 3 days too?
0:40 Diamond Plaza and 20:23 Tàu Hủ Cannal - Bến Bình Đông in my home city!
Thank you for the good information. You are indeed cool bros!
Japanese used to be on the 1st of 1st month in lunisolar calendar before the Meiji "Restoration" happened
正月 pronounces Zhēng not zhèng. The Chinese character 羊 does not differ sheep or goat, Chinese people use goat as the traditional image of the year of 羊.
Depends on where you grew up. Not all people speak putonghua.
So what are u trying to prove? To oppose the difference between Chinese and Japanese? 🤔
I know Chinese just wanted everything to be Sinitic lol. 😂
@@jackjackyphantom8854 what？？？
Fun facts: 1. People in southern China don't eat dumplings during Spring Festival (e.g., Guangdong, Hong Kong, Fujian, Shanghai, Sichuan, etc.), while northerners do (e.g., Beijing).
2. During the Spring Festival, only a few places in northern China perform lion dances, and the lions in the north and the south look entirely different. The furry and cute one we usually see is called "南狮", or "Southern Lion", while the Northern Lion(北狮) looks more creepy and mighty.
3. In Beijing, for example, the standard amount of red envelopes is 200 RMB or more. But in Guangdong, the red envelope is only a few yuan.
4. Chinese minorities do not celebrate the Chinese New Year (such as Yi, Zhuang, Tibetan, etc.) Only Han Chinese celebrate it(yes, hanfu is also han Chinese own culture)They all have their own festivals. So when you see an East Asian person, please don't assume that he/she celebrates Chinese New Year.
5.There are calligraphy majors in China's art school. When Chinese New Year comes, according to my calligraphy major friends, they are asked to write Chinese couplets by their parents(maybe Chinese painting students need to draw something too? I don't know) People use flour paste to paste Chinese couplets(those couplets smell so good)
Sorry some of that may be true for some people, but I literally lived in south of China. We did definitely eat dumplings. I think your fun facts could just be preferences that some prefer maybe. Also I knew many minorities in China, it's even part of my major, I am sure some people don't Celebrate Chinese new year, but some do. To say minorities don't celebrate is completely generalizing. Actually the more I comment, the more I realize everything you said sounds like the opinions of specific people and not actually facts
@@bunnyrabi ok, which province?
@@bunnyrabi In Shanghai I think people generally prefer spring roll 春卷 than dumplings during the New Year
Is politically right nowadays to call Luna new year , but that based on the sacrifice /denial of the origin / Chinese New Year. Happy Luna New Year to the Vietnamese ! Happy Luna New Year to the Koreans! Happy Chinese New Year to the Chinese !
Your accent is so cool bro.
Also rad video 😎
I really like your reseach document, I learned a lot more from you!.
I was today years old when I learned that two Jesuit priests from Europe helped calculate/develop the current iteration of the Chinese calendar.
yay it's the OX YEAR 🙈 happy Chinese New Year everyone 🥰🥰🥰
Vietnamese: ANGRY 😡
If say this in other country u’re gonna got a punch to your face.
@@iamTHIEN013 no, except Korea
Chinese New Year adopted by other countries suddenly became non-Chinese New Year.
@@jimmyyu5115 lmao IHDJSJSKSJJ
Every Vietnamese's emergency breakfast after Tết: Fried Bánh Tét
@Rebecca Matthews you are not Vietnamese right? Cuz all vietnamese know what bánh tét is and have heard the name Paris by Night at least once in their life
@@nuxa8549 i heard about paris by night from oversea vietnamese but it not commonly watch by central/northern vietnamese,mostly the people from the south-usually older generation.
Most northern/central vietnamese watch "Táo Quân"
As Hanoian,Fried Bánh Chưng for breakfast during/slightly after tết
bro it’s called fried bánh chưng not fried bánh tết
Bánh tét là bánh chưng phiên bản hình trụ mà người miền nam hay ăn nên người ta nói banh tét rán là đúng rồi
Nice work !
so Happy lunar new year!
I’m confused about this whole “chinese new year” thing. I’m a korean and I know that my family name 愼 came from Song dynasty a thousand years ago. But I don’t consider myself chinese cause I don’t speak mandarin and I don’t relate to chinese culture at all. Just like that, how koreans celebrate the day has become so different from how chinese would. That’s why we don’t like to call it “chinese new year”. I don’t think “let’s say lunar new year” folks are trying to say that the lunisolar or whatever calendar didn’t originate from the place that is now China.
As a Singaporean Chinese, we celebrate as 新年 or 农历新年, we call as New Year/ Chinese New Year / Lunar New Year
I'm half Cambodian and Chinese so I celebrate the Lunar New Year in February and the Solar New Year in April.
I don’t know why people insist on finding “differences”. It’s all the same holiday based on the same calendar, just celebrated with sometime wildly different local customs. It’s like saying different countries have different ways of celebrating Christmas makes them different holidays.
Great video but correction: the Vietnamese zodiac also replaces the ox with the water buffalo. This is a really important detail because the water buffalo is a very important part of our culture, and Southeast Asia in general. They plow our rice fields and if I’m not wrong they’ve even helped us in times of war. This is cultural diffusion in Vietnam which is culturally East Asian and geographically East Asian because the concept of the zodiac is very Chinese, but the water buffalo is very indigenous.
We all know where's 春节 (Chinese New year) came from, but seems like some people from southern korean peninsula disagree with that. On Jan 20, I was going to search something about "Korean" on google, right after I type in "Korean" before I hit enter, it pops out so called google predictions say "Korean New Year" and the date of Jan 22 2023, I was like WTH? Then I type in "Chinese" try to see if I can get to see "Chinese New Year" with the same date, guess what? I don't see the corresponding result, but only some usual predictions like "Chinese to English", "Chinese food near me", etc, you know what, this is really ridiculous!
Tôn Trung Sơn đã hủy bỏ tết nguyên đán,phá bỏ văn hoá nguyên thủy ,bây giờ lại muốn nhận vơ và xâm lược văn hoá,(lão
Khổng tử).không có ghi chép gì về tểt nguyên đán,mà chỉ nói là người (a nam) họ mở hội nhảy múa vào ngày đầu năm mới mà thôi bạn nhé,cười phun cả cơm vào mặt người Trung quốc
So am I😢
because google prediction is base on search amounts and "China/Chinese DON'T USE GOOGLE FOR SEARCH"
Completely off topic but at 5:37
My brain just stopped and said “...Toadally awesome”
Learn something new everyday.
Is this a yugioh reference
@@catnip9424
This is a yugioh reference.
I think one more difference of Vietnamese New Year comparing to others is that Tet Flower Culture.
Rich or poor, they will try to buy some flowers (not only Peech Blossom and Yellow Arricot) to decorate their house.
The street is filled with lots of color of flowers.
In Taiwan, I haven't seen this activity.
Cantonese did the same, that isn't the unique culture in Vietnam.
I am from Henan province, the center of China, we will also buy a lot of flower trees for new year decoration, and mandarine tree which present fortune.
Happy Tet New Year 🎉🎊
Thank you for your clear information. It really helps a lot ❤️
Interesting how I hear a lot of "East Asia so-and-so", but I don't recall hearing about "West Asia so-and-so".
Cause it's entirely a part of greater Middle Eastern. 🙄
@@seriouslythink.834 Is there such thing as Middle-Eastern, is there a "Middle-Western"?
No one like South West Asia.. it is just too plain , boring , in terms of food and beautiful woman are all covered up.. so sad..😑
@@jsprite123 well, Atlantis? Middle Western is the Atlantic Ocean.
@@unserkatzenland8884 Uhh, you realize we are talking actual land mass, right?
There is a slight error about Korea's Chinese zodiac.
In Korean Chinese zodiac, the goat is replaced by sheep.
I don't know the reason for its replacement, but i guess our ancestors felt sheeps to be more familiar and common animal than goats.
There used to be Sheeps in Korea. They aren't anymore... but yeah...so for 羊 which means goat and Sheep in China(but mostly goat meaning), we called sheeps 羊. Goat had korean name 염소(yum-so), still used unto this day. But if they wanted to write it in Chinese characters they would write it as 羔(which original means baby goat or lamb), or 髥牛(염우 Yum-Woo) which is unique korean writing way of Chinese back in the day. Yum would be a transcription Yum-so's Yum into closest chinese. And Woo would be borrowing from Chinese that has meaning of Cow. Korean Hanja writing system had similarities with Japanese kanji back in the days. So 髥牛 would be read as Yum-so instead of Yum-woo.
Japan have different zodiac too
@@junainoakuma actually as a Chinese myself, I would say that at least in modern Chinese, 羊 is the common name of all the sheep and goats, not mainly for goat. To tell them apart, we usually call sheep 绵羊 and goat 山羊. 绵 basically means furry as sheep are often fed for their fur and 山 means mountain as goats live on mountains.
Chinese is not goats, we say 羊，which basically includes all kind of sheep，for us goat and sheep are all 羊
@@VivianLu You are right, I also heard so strangely, there is no such thing as this. In China, this zodiac sign does not distinguish between goats and sheep, including all breeds of sheep! Just like other zodiac signs, it is a general term for that species, such as dogs, mice, rabbits, pigs, horses, cows, sheep, monkeys, snakes, etc., even each one of them have more varieties, they are all included.
Thank you for the Chinese new year. Because of that, student in Indonesia have holiday for 1 day.
😂
Bro how do you cope looking like that .
lunnar new year
@The Fiend interesting ，copy everything from China，then accuse of China
@The Fiend Can you explain why vietnamese call newyear as 元旦？
You did a great job! Thank you for your knowledge
Happy New Year!!!!
amazing video！happy lunar new year.
Happy Chinese New Year
Ancient China was the cultural parent of Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam. After these three countries grew up, they developed their own unique culture on this basis！Therefore, many of these traditional cultural customs are very similar！
@Anna K lol what a joke
With 5000+years of history, I’ve always found Chinese history and culture rich and beautiful. Hope to visit China again ❤
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@@daniel0223-i8s you mean you? Time to get some plastic surgery like 99% of your people just to look presentable ☠️😂
Good information, I am impressed with your good pronunciations
21:06 this is not how altar looks in Tet Nguyen Dan, and I can say that this altar must be in July or August because it has longan. We always have a big plate with 5 different types of fruits(a bunch of banana and grapefruit are mandatory in the north, and in the south custard apple-coconut-papaya-mango-fig are typical). Also Banh Chung(a traditional dish) is indispensable, we decorate the altar with different types of flower, sweet, some houses even decorate it with 2 sugar cane tree!
isint that the altar from Phật Giáo Hòa Hảo?
@@NTXsirens-eas No
@@咳噲些𪜀真命天子 oh ok