Say goodbye to the old calendars.

With the development of technology, people can now check the time using watches, phones, or computers; the habit of checking the calendar seems to have decreased somewhat.

Nevertheless, hanging calendars to welcome the new year has long been a beautiful cultural tradition in every family. Perhaps that's why calendars are now not only used to keep track of time, but also to showcase the creativity and dedication of calendar manufacturers.

Besides the familiar theme of landscapes, many calendars also offer interesting and practical content that can be applied to daily life or studies.

For example, a calendar featuring the Tale of Kieu by the great poet Nguyen Du, national treasures, or the history of the country... Having such a calendar at home is like having a friend, sharing stories or information with you every day.

The brightly colored calendars hung up signal the end of another year.

My friend had a large calendar last year that featured recipes for 365 different dishes for each of the 35 days. So, instead of throwing away each calendar page, she kept the copies, bound them together, and treated them like a unique cookbook.

Whenever she wants a change of pace or doesn't know what to cook, she'll choose a dish from those old calendar pages to treat the whole family!

My friend said that back then, old calendar pages were like family members carrying secrets about family meals.

I still remember when I was a child, whenever I needed to check the date, there was no other way than to look at the calendar on the wall. For adults, the calendar was very helpful in keeping track of the weather for planting and harvesting.

As for my student back then, he would check the calendar to know his study schedule and when he would have a day off from school due to upcoming holidays…

Back then, I also had a hobby with old calendars: keeping those that contained quotes from great people, famous figures, or occasionally anonymous "authors," which I would read and find very insightful.

I kept those old calendar pages tucked in a notebook, and whenever I had free time, I would take them out to look at them, idly pondering the conclusions of our ancestors.

In the 1980s and 90s, besides weekly calendars, there were also single-page calendars, with images of famous actors of the time at the top and 12 boxes below corresponding to the 12 months.

My friends and I used to keep these old calendar pages to wrap our notebooks. Usually, they were made of newspaper, but how could that compare to calendars with sturdy paper covers, featuring stars like Ly Hung, Diem Huong, Viet Trinh, Le Tuan Anh, Le Cong Tuan Anh, Y Phung, Thu Ha... on them?

Wrapped in this type of calendar, the notebooks looked much sturdier and more attractive. So, those stars accompanied the notebooks we brought to class every day, much to the admiration of our classmates.

In the final days of the year, you occasionally hear someone sigh and lament: "The year is over before I've even had a chance to accomplish anything!" or "We just finished celebrating Tet (Lunar New Year) and now we're about to welcome the new year again!"

Whether time passes quickly or slowly depends on each person's perception, but time continues to flow, and nothing can stop it. Days and months fly by, the calendar on the wall begins to thin out, and that's when time is moving towards the end of the year.

Another year is about to pass. Another Lunar New Year is approaching, very soon!

HO SON

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/chia-tay-nhung-to-lich-cu-post829845.html