Dragon dance at the Hội Chợ Tết 2023 – Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current. 
Ceremony on stage for the Tet Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current. 
Hội Chợ Tết 2023 – Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current. 
Hội Chợ Tết 2023 – Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current. 
Dragon dance at the Hội Chợ Tết 2023 – Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current. 
Dragon dance at the Hội Chợ Tết 2023 – Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current. 
Hội Chợ Tết 2023 – Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current. 
Food vendor at the Hội Chợ Tết 2023 – Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current. 
Hội Chợ Tết 2023 – Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current. 
Food vendor at the Hội Chợ Tết 2023 – Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current. 
Hội Chợ Tết 2023 – Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current. 
Hội Chợ Tết 2023 – Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current. 
Hội Chợ Tết 2023 – Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current. 
Organizer Tai Shaw shakes hands with a Syracuse Police Chief. Hội Chợ Tết 2023 – Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current. 
A dancer backstage at the Hội Chợ Tết 2023 – Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current. 
Three generations. Hội Chợ Tết 2023 – Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current. 
Buddhist nun. Hội Chợ Tết 2023 – Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current. 
Dragon dance at the Hội Chợ Tết 2023 – Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current. 
Dragon dance at the Hội Chợ Tết 2023 – Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current. 
L to R DA William Fitzpatrick, Mayor Ben Walsh, NYS Sen. Rachel May and NYS Sen John Mannion. Hội Chợ Tết 2023 – Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current. 
Backstage at the Hội Chợ Tết 2023 – Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current. 
Hội Chợ Tết 2023 – Vietnamese New Year Festival in Syracuse. Photo by Mike Greenlar | Central Current.
The local Vietnamese community invited neighbors in Syracuse to celebrate the Lunar New Year this past weekend.
This year’s 2023 Tết Nguyên Đán celebration in Syracuse took place on Sunday at the F Shed at the Regional Market. It included performances, food and a ceremony.
Tet, as the holiday is usually abbreviated, officially falls on Jan. 22 this year. It’s the biggest holiday of the year in Vietnam, “the feast of the first morning.”
Vietnamese celebrate Tet by going to temple, eating special foods and cakes, decorating their homes and performing other traditions, such as giving children “lucky money.”
The celebration in Syracuse is organized and hosted by the nonprofit Vietnamese Community of Syracuse.