Tourists wearing Ao Dai check in at Home Hanoi Xuan 2025 flower street

On New Year's Day, Pham Hoai Thuong's family donned red ao dai (traditional Vietnamese dress) and enjoyed a spring outing at the Home Hanoi Xuan flower street. The whole family strolled around, admiring the scenery and taking photos. Occasionally, the couple would tell their young son stories about Tet (Vietnamese New Year) from the past when they encountered familiar scenes.

"Red symbolizes good fortune, according to East Asian beliefs. In this traditional setting, my daughter and I wore ao dai (traditional Vietnamese dress) as a way to honor our culture and to educate her about her roots, love for her country, and love for her homeland," Ms. Thuong added.

The Home Hanoi Xuan 2025 flower street, located in the Mailand Hanoi City urban area (An Khanh, Hoai Duc), opened to visitors on January 16th. This year's festival is themed "A Harmony of Vietnamese Tet," inspired by traditional music . Visitors to the flower street will be able to hear the melodies of folk songs echoing amidst a space filled with colorful flowers.

According to the organizers, not only Ms. Thuong and her daughter, but also thousands of other visitors wore traditional Vietnamese ao dai dresses to celebrate the Lunar New Year at Home Hanoi Xuan throughout the festival.

Many people believe that the ceramic road, with its thousands of clay pots, hundreds of flower species from all over the country, and pathways covered in straw, makes this festival deeply rooted in Vietnamese culture, perfect for wearing elegant ao dai dresses and taking Instagram-worthy photos. "For the past few years, this has been a familiar destination for me when taking spring ao dai photos," said Ms. Bich Ngoc (Hoai Duc).

From adults to children, visitors can freely pose and take photos in traditional Vietnamese ao dai dresses amidst hundreds of flower varieties at Home Hanoi Xuan 2025.

The two sisters adjusted each other's appearance before their mother took the photo.

Groups of friends, families, and content creators also choose the ao dai (traditional Vietnamese dress) and the space of Home Hanoi Xuan as locations for filming Tet (Vietnamese New Year) videos.

“The ao dai is formal yet highly versatile; I can wear it on many occasions, from ceremonies, to work, strolling around town, going out, to photoshoots… When women wear it, it accentuates their graceful and charming beauty, while men like me feel elegant and mature,” shared Mr. Truong Tai, a tourist visiting the flower street.

The children happily posed for photos in the traditional Vietnamese ao dai dresses that their parents had prepared for them on New Year's Day.

Deeper inside the flower street area, at the calligraphy booths, many female tourists dressed in traditional costumes participated in requesting calligraphy and experiencing the art of calligraphy. In Vietnamese culture, requesting calligraphy at the beginning of the year reflects a spirit of learning and conveys wishes through the words.

The main stage of the Home Hanoi Xuan 2025 flower street features lively musical performances with cheerful melodies, reflecting the vibrant spirit of Vietnamese Tet (Lunar New Year), attracting many families and children.

The Pont de Long Bien pedestrian street, inspired by the historic Long Bien Bridge, also attracts many people wearing ao dai (traditional Vietnamese dress) to visit. From modern to traditional, from edgy to elegant, this area is a popular choice for women to enjoy the spring season and take photos.

Ms. Anh Ngoc (from Nam Tu Liem district), dressed in a white ao dai (traditional Vietnamese dress), strolled along the pedestrian street, taking photos for the Spring season. “The ao dai is an endless source of inspiration for me to create Tet (Lunar New Year) photo concepts. Each year, a different color, a different style, from modern to traditional, I’ve taken dozens of photos in this outfit, never repeating and never getting bored,” Ngoc said.

During the two weeks the event takes place, many kindergartens and primary schools in the surrounding area bring their students here for spring outings.

Dressed in traditional Vietnamese ao dai, the children got to experience folk games such as O An Quan (a board game), tug-of-war, and stilt walking.

The Home Hanoi Spring 2025 flower street will run until February 3rd, and is free for locals and tourists to visit and experience the Vietnamese Tet atmosphere in the western part of the capital.

"Beyond preserving traditional beauty, we hope this event will connect the community, illuminate cultural values in modern life, and create a vibrant, emotionally rich space that is both familiar and fresh, closing out the old year and opening a new year full of hope and prosperity," a representative of the organizing committee shared.

Home Hanoi Xuan, first organized in 2021, is part of a network of events promoting the image of Hanoi as a creative city, under a UNESCO project. The program is organized by Phu Long Company. UNESCO, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports, the Hoai Duc District People's Committee, and Sovico Group are partners.

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