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"TET" is a Vietnamese word for Lunar New Year. Its original meaning comes from an old Vietnamese term "Tiet" which literally means an internode of a bamboo stem. Figuratively, "Tiet" is used to denote the transition between consecutive seasons or periods with distinctive change in weather features. In that context, "Tet" comes to present the transition between winter and spring, or that between the arrival of new year and the depature of old year. The full name "Tet Nguyen Dan" bears the meaning of "First moment of new day" (or "the arrival of dawn") which implicitly means "The beginning of a new phase".

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