After offering incense, it is customary to buy salt with hope of it bringing good luck during the upcoming year. Another destination attracting huge crowds is Van Mieu Temple, the first university of Vietnam. Visitors shuffle through the campus of the Van Mieu Temple. Students writing their names with their fingers on painted stucco stone slabs for good luck with their grades in the new year. A mother carrying her sleeping child at the Van Mieu Temple.

Source: VietNamNet News February 02, 2017 09:40 UTC