New Year is considered to be the most important and wonderful holiday in Vietnam, since that is the time for people to leave their haplessness in the back and get their fortune for the New Year. Similar to other houses, this community has always bustled in preparing and greeting for the New Year. A mother is supposed to go to the supermarket early in the morning and come back with a bunch of food. From …showed first 75 words of 664 total…

…showed last 75 words of 664 total…and dragged on until night. That's the time when people are looking forward to the luck and happiness for whole year. This sound only decreased gradually around 9:00 p.m., since guests were leaving randomly. Finally, the house was empty and became quiet again, but the dishes and cups were found thrown in different places, on the table, on the chairs, even on the floor. "Are they our present tonight?" my sister and I wondered happily.