Chinese New Year is the traditional New Year day for the Vietnamese people. Wherever you go, whatever you do, people are still looking forward to reuniting with your family, gathering around the cozy tray of rice, traveling together in the spring of the new year. Imperial Citadel of Thang Long is an ideal destination for each spring festival. Here, you and your family will be immersed in the cultural space of Vietnamese New Year, with special interesting experiences.

Besides the spaces that have become so familiar to residents and visitors to Hanoi, such as Hoan Kiem Lake, One Pillar Pagoda … in recent years, Hoang Thanh Thang Long has become an attractive destination for the occasion. At the beginning of the year, the place will bring your family extremely interesting experiences, both traditional and very modern and attractive.

Every New Year comes, Hoang Thanh Thang Long wears a new shirt, blending with the beauty of a thousand-year-old relic to create cozy and modern spaces for your whole family.

First of all, it is impossible not to mention the Thien Dien Palace.

The Palace of the Thousand centuries has always been a place of great spiritual significance. Every Tet to spring, the space of the Dien Kinh Thien is splendidly decorated with flags, flowers, fans, parasols in traditional style, reminiscent of the ancient Imperial Palace. Certainly it will be meaningful if you and your grandparents and parents come here, the whole family offers incense to commemorate the gods and pray for peace for the whole family.

Flower square before Doan Mon

If the Palace of Glass brings with you a sacred, deposited space, then coming to Doan Mon, you will feel a completely different space of the Imperial City with a colorful flower square.

Doan Mon on New Year attracts thousands of young people to take photos with lots of vividly created, unique spaces that are unique to Hoang Thanh Thang Long.

In addition to the colorful colors of flowers, pinwheels, before Doan Mon, there are many folk games for children. In particular, on the occasion of the beginning of the new year, at Hoang Thanh Thang Long, the children will experience Tet Market, find the New Year through folk fun, write calligraphy, make Tet flowers, Pair fabric paintings, molded curious he … and enjoy the special puppet performances.

In addition, a display space reminiscent of the ancient New Year with the theme “Huong Xuan” was also recreated at the home to welcome 19C Hoang Dieu with many vivid images such as: “Welcome to the spring dragon”, asking for calligraphy and playing. Tet puzzles, Hoa Tien wine-making model, traditional Tet paintings, subsidized pavilions on Tet holiday, …

In particular, to make the Spring Festival of New Year visitors more meaningful, in Hoang Thanh there are traditional cultural activities or special puppet shows for visitors.

Do not hesitate that you should not plan for the whole family happy spring at Hoang Thanh Thang Long.

Detailed schedule of Tet Program at Hoang Thanh Thang Long:

• Festival of Mr. Cong and Mr. Tao, build up a tree in Nao (January 26, 2019 – December 21 in the year of Mau Tuat).
• Water puppet show (February 7, October 9, 2019 – March 3,4, 5 and 6 for the Lunar New Year, at 10:00 and 15:00).
• Activities for children (February 7, 2019 – February 10, 2019 and February 16, 2019 – February 17, 2019).
• Offering incense to the spring festival (February 13, 2019 – January 9, Ky Hoi).

Time to visit:

• From 8:00 – 17:00
• Heritage area is closed on 3, 4, 5 February 2019 (December 29, 30, Mau Tuat year and the first day of Lunar New Year). The monuments still serve guests for worshiping and burning incense.
• Open to visitors to the heritage site from February 6, 2019 (2nd Lunar New Year)
• Contact to visit: 024.3.7345427