## Concept explanation **Tét** is the Vietnamese **Lunar New Year**, so its date shifts on the solar calendar instead of staying fixed like `1 January`. It marks a **renewal** point in the year: families gather, homes are decorated, and the holiday is linked with the start of a new **spring** cycle in the lunar tradition. That is why this view compares a regular solar-year timeline with a highlighted lunar new year moment. ## What you see You can follow the teal marker across the solar year at the bottom. The red highlight shows the approximate **lunar new year period**, and the upper scene changes as you enter it: quiet seasonal branches give way to blossoms and festive red decorations. When the marker reaches Tét, short labels appear to connect the celebration with renewal, family reunion, and the beginning of spring. ## Try it yourself - **Drag the teal marker** along the timeline and notice how the year moves in ordinary solar days. - **Stop near the red highlighted period** to see when the scene transforms into a Tét celebration. - **Click `Jump to Tét`** to move directly to the lunar new year point. - **Click `Reset year`** and compare the calm pre-Tét scene with the festive version. - **Toggle `Show labels`** to focus either on the visual changes or on the named ideas behind the holiday. ## Concept explanation Preparing for **Tét** often means more than making a room look nice. By **cleaning**, **organising**, and adding festive decorations, you symbolically clear away the old year and make space for a **fresh start**, **luck**, and good hopes for the new year. Each small action in the room shows how everyday household tasks can carry deeper meaning during the holiday. ## What you see You are looking at a house interior that begins slightly dusty and plain. As you clean the floor, tidy the table, and add items like a red banner, blossoms, and a festive tray, the room gradually becomes brighter, neater, and more welcoming. The progress panel on the right lets you track how the space changes from ordinary to celebration-ready. ## Try it yourself - **Click the broom area** to sweep away mess from the floor and notice how the room starts to feel calmer. - **Click the table** to tidy it and see how order replaces clutter. - **Click the top wall area** to hang the red banner and watch the room gain a more festive Tét feeling. - **Click the branch area** to place flowering blossoms and notice how a fresh seasonal symbol changes the mood. - **Click the tray area** to arrange festive items and complete the welcoming setup. - **Drag the cleaning slider** to compare a cluttered room with a cleaned one. - **Adjust the decoration slider** to add decorations step by step. - **Press `Auto prepare`** to watch the room transform automatically from the old year into a hopeful new beginning. ## Concept explanation During **Tét**, many families choose particular flowers and decorations because each one carries a hopeful message for the new year. **Peach blossoms** are especially associated with northern celebrations and suggest renewal and good fortune, while **apricot blossoms** are more common in the south and are linked with prosperity and bright beginnings. A **kumquat tree** full of fruit symbolizes abundance, and **red envelopes** plus **red-gold decorations** add wishes for luck, happiness, and wealth. Together, these symbols turn a display table into a visual language of **renewal**, **prosperity**, and **good luck**. ## What you see You are looking at a Tét display table with labeled festive objects arranged across it. The flower arrangement on the left changes depending on the regional setting, so you can compare the northern emphasis on peach blossoms with the southern emphasis on apricot blossoms. When you hover over any item, it highlights and a meaning panel explains what that symbol represents in the celebration. ## Try it yourself - **Move your cursor over each symbol** to see which part of the display is highlighted and read its symbolic meaning. - **Drag the regional slider** from `North` to `South` and notice how the main flower arrangement changes from peach blossoms to apricot blossoms. - **Use the quick-select dropdown** to jump directly between northern and southern displays and compare which flower is emphasized. - **Hover over the kumquat tree** and connect its many fruits with the idea of abundance and success. - **Hover over the red envelopes and red-gold decoration** to see how color itself communicates luck, joy, and prosperity. - **Press `Reset view`** to return to the northern display and clear the comparison. ## Concept explanation A Tét meal is practical because it feeds many people gathered for the new year, but it is also full of **symbolism**. Specific foods carry shared wishes: **unity** in dishes made from many parts, **abundance** in trays and pots that look full, and **sweetness** in treats that suggest a pleasant year ahead. When families arrange and share these foods, the meal communicates values and hopes, not just flavor. ## What you see You are looking at a festive table with several iconic Tét foods. Each dish has a color-coded badge that links it to a symbolic meaning, and when you select one, it grows larger and opens a detail card with its message. You can also switch from the ordinary meal layout to a grouped view, where dishes reorganize by meaning so you can compare how different foods express similar ideas. ## Try it yourself - **Click a dish** to enlarge it and read the symbolic meaning attached to that food. - **Use the Table arrangement menu** to switch from `Meal layout` to `Group by symbolism` and see the foods reorganize by shared values. - **Move the Focus emphasis slider** to make the selected dish stand out more or less strongly. - **Select two foods with the same badge color** and notice how different dishes can communicate the same hope for the new year. - **Press Reset focus** to return to the original table view and start exploring again. ## Concept explanation During **Tét**, the home becomes a place for both **family reunion** and **ancestor remembrance**. Families prepare offerings, light **incense**, and gather near the **ancestor altar** to honor those who came before them. These rituals are not separate from celebration—they help show that the holiday’s meaning comes from remembering family across generations while also sharing time, greetings, and meals with the relatives who are present now. ## What you see You are looking at a family room connected to a small altar space, with a reunion table in the living area. As you move through the ritual moments, the altar fills with offerings, incense appears, and finally family members gather around the prepared meal. The growing scene shows how the home becomes more complete as acts of remembrance and reunion come together. ## Try it yourself - **Click inside the scene** to move from one ritual moment to the next and watch the room gradually fill. - **Drag the step slider** to jump between the quiet room, the offering moment, the incense moment, and the family gathering. - **Press `Next moment`** to play the sequence in order and notice how the altar is prepared before the reunion meal comes alive. - **Press `Reset`** to clear the scene and see how the meaning builds step by step from remembrance to togetherness. - **Compare the altar space and the meal table** and notice how both are central: one honors ancestors, while the other welcomes the living family into shared celebration. ## Concept explanation During **Tết**, family greetings are more than simple hellos: they express **respect** for age and family roles, offer **blessings** for health and success, and share **hope** for the new year. A child greeting an elder usually uses more formal words and a respectful posture, while an adult often gives **lì xì** (lucky money in a red envelope) to children as a wish for good fortune. Between people of similar age, greetings are often more equal and relaxed. ## What you see You are looking at a festive family scene with several relatives of different ages standing together in a decorated home courtyard. When you choose two people, speech bubbles show their new year wishes, body posture changes to reflect etiquette, and red envelopes appear when that exchange fits the social role. The mode control lets you compare how the same family space supports different customs depending on who is greeting whom. ## Try it yourself - **Click an adult and then a child** to see a blessing flow downward through words, gesture, and a red envelope. - **Switch to `Child → Elder`** with the dropdown or by pressing **`M`**, then **select a child followed by an elder** to notice the more deferential posture and formal wish. - **Choose `Peer ↔ Peer`** and **click two similar-age family members** to compare the more balanced, mutual exchange. - **Turn etiquette hints on or off** to test whether you can predict the correct custom before reading the cue. - **Press Reset exchange** and **try new pairs** to explore how age and role shape greetings, gratitude, and lucky money. ## Concept explanation **Tét** works as a connected cultural system, not as a random collection of separate customs. **Timing**, **rituals**, **symbols**, **food**, and **social customs** all point toward shared values such as **renewal**, **good fortune**, **family unity**, and **remembrance**. Choosing the right time shapes preparation, preparation supports decoration and offerings, offerings connect to family memory, meals strengthen relationships, and greetings carry blessings outward into the community. When you see these practices together, it becomes clearer that each one reinforces the others. ## What you see You are looking at a festival map with a central idea — renewal and good fortune — surrounded by six zones: calendar timing, home preparation, decorations, family altar, meal table, and greeting space. Subtle lines connect every zone to the center, and when you activate a zone or filter by a theme, the related parts glow together. That shared glow helps you notice that one practice can belong to several meanings at once, such as family, prosperity, or remembrance. ## Try it yourself - **Click a zone** to focus on one part of Tét and read the short note that appears in the lower-left card. - **Open the theme filter** and choose `Family` to see how the altar, meal, greetings, and timing all support relationships rather than standing alone. - **Switch to `Prosperity`** and notice how decorations, preparation, meals, and greetings connect material hopes with social exchange. - **Choose `Remembrance`** to see how the family altar links memory and ancestry into the wider festival system. - **Move the glow strength slider** to make the network links more or less visible and compare weak versus strong thematic connections. - **Toggle the zone labels checkbox** to test whether you can still recognize the structure from position, icons, and connections alone. - **Press the reset button** to return to the default focus and rebuild your understanding from the center outward.