Special traditional customs of our Lunar New Year.

Tet (Lunar New year) is the biggest holiday in Vietnam of our vietnamese. and we are all preparing to welcome it now. 

The things we all need to prepare before Tet are Chung cakes, fruits, confectionary and preserved fruits which are placed on our altars. Many families decorate their houses with trees like apricots, peaches, kumquats etc ...or paralledl sentences. Our Tet begins with a big feast when New Year comes and ends some a few days later followed by another feast.

And On the first day of our Lunar New Year, we consider the first person who enters our house will decide whether our year that will be filled with joy, luck and happiness or not. So people who are rich, successful or of a suitable age with as master of the house are ussually invited to be the first person who will visit the house.

One more traditional custom in our  during Tet is giving lucky money to people, mainly children.
I'm curious about traditional customs in other countries.