13/01/2025
Spring Flower Market Busy as Tet Nears
As Tet nears, Haiphong people go to the Tet flower market, both to admire and feel the spring atmosphere and to buy the best peach branches, apricot trees, kumquat trees, etc. to celebrate Tet early.

These days, Le Hong Phong Street, located in Ngo Quyen and Hai An districts is one of the largest spring flower markets in the city. Orchids, peach blossoms, and kumquats are the first stalls to appear at Le Hong Phong flower market at this time. Orchids are a popular flower with full colors and beautiful shapes, attracting a large number of customers. Especially, the types of orchids provided to Tet customers are still as diverse as every year. People who go to the flower market at this time mainly come to look around, check prices, and enjoy the atmosphere of the days before Tet...
According to information from Ngo Quyen district, the spring flower market this year will start operating from January 14, 2025, to January 28, 2025 (Lunar December 15 to 29). According to folk beliefs, usually after the day of the Ông Táo ritual – the Kitchen God Day celebration, held on the 23rd of the last month of the lunar year, marks the day when the three kitchen gods, the advocates of the family, travel on the back of a carp to the Jade Emperor, the spring flower markets will start to bustle until the afternoon of the Lunar Year’s Eve./.
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