The image of a tree built with recycled materials has brought encouragement to Vietnamese green beret soldiers who are on duty away from the Fatherland during the Lunar New Year.
In the days leading up to the Lunar New Year, the Vietnamese Engineer Team in Abyei (Africa) erected a tree about 18m high at the barracks and welcomed international friends to celebrate.
The trunk of the tree is made from two well-dried water pipes, decorated with eye-catching colors and LED lights. On top of the tree, there is a 2m high five-pointed star decorated with the Vietnamese flag and the United Nations flag. At night, LED lights make the tree and the Vietnamese Fatherland flag stand out.
Vietnam’s Tet tree is set up at the peacekeeping force barracks in Abyei (Photo: PKO).
Lunar New Year Giap Thin 2024 is also an opportunity to promote traditional Vietnamese dishes to international friends, of which Chung cake is indispensable.
The Vietnamese military engineering team invited international friends to enjoy traditional Vietnamese Tet dishes, telling them about the legend of banh chung and banh giay and guiding them to experience wrapping banh chung and bringing it home. cake wrapped by myself.
Foreign peacekeepers get to experience a Vietnamese banh chung package (Photo: PKO).
During Tet days, the Team also organizes volleyball, table tennis, and banh chung wrapping competitions among the units in the unit to create a vibrant and joyful atmosphere to welcome spring.
This year is the first year the United Nations recognizes Lunar New Year as the main holiday of the year. This is the international community’s recognition of traditional Asian culture, and at the same time an opportunity for the Vietnam Army Corps of Engineers to have cultural exchanges with international friends.
