Sự Tích cây nêu ngày Tết - Legend of the Tet pole
Illustrated by: Nguyen Dang Phuong Thao
Photoshop cs5; Wacom Intuos 4
Illustrated by: Nguyen Dang Phuong Thao
Photoshop cs5; Wacom Intuos 4
This is a traditional tale of Vietnamese. If you visit Vietnam in the first month of Spring, you will see a tall bamboo tree set up in the front garden of a house or a temple. They are the Lunar New Year pole or Tet. Since the first days of the national history, the pole has been the most cacred symbol of the Vietnamese in the Lunar New Year Eve. It closely linked with a deep human culture legend.