1. Chrysanthemum Flowers
According to an ancient parable, a young man was given a flower by the Buddha, who said that the number of petals on the flower would be the number of years his mother could live. Upon hearing this, the young man continuously plucked the petals until the number became uncountable. This story reflects the filial piety of the young man, and from then on, chrysanthemum flowers have become widely displayed during Tet, symbolizing the sacred parental love and the wish for parents to live long with their children and grandchildren. Chrysanthemums are beloved by many for their fresh colors and the blessings of luck and peace they bring to family life. Therefore, on every traditional Tet occasion, households choose potted chrysanthemums to decorate their living rooms or ancestral altars.
As the new year arrives, everyone wants to invite fortune and joy into their homes. Therefore, Chrysanthemums are an indispensable choice. Chrysanthemums are part of the 'Four Nobles' - Pine, Chrysanthemum, Bamboo, and Apricot Blossom, symbolizing survival, stability, and prosperity. Chrysanthemums are often placed in prominent positions, highlighting the feng shui aspects of this flower. Among the various types of Chrysanthemums, golden Chrysanthemums are highly favored by homeowners because gold represents ripe crops, valuable metals, and the color of the future, reflecting prosperity, wealth, and abundance. The golden color is like carrying the sunlight of the new day, full of energy, optimism, and zest for life.


2. Orchid
Just like its name suggests, Everlasting Flowers never wither, which is why Vietnamese families always have this flower in their homes during the Tet holiday, hoping that everyone in the family will be safe, peaceful, and lucky. Nowadays, gardeners have cleverly crafted these plants into small, lovely pots that you can use to decorate your workspace every day and especially during Tet. It's unknown who named this flower, but the name Everlasting Flowers truly embodies its vigorous vitality and many intriguing aspects not only in its blossoms but also in its leaves and peculiar growth patterns.
When you place an Everlasting Flowers pot in the living room, kitchen, staircase, balcony... the flowers always radiate, brightening the decorative space and wishing the family abundant health and happiness. One special thing about Everlasting Flowers is their rapid growth, with new life sprouting from the leaf crevices, symbolizing prosperity and family solidarity amidst life's challenges. Life becomes easier when nurtured by simplicity, closeness, and friendliness. Those who love Everlasting Flowers often simplify everything, see pressure as a challenge, and tend to forget life's complexities, focusing wholeheartedly on their work and reaping many successes. Therefore, decorating with this flower during Tet brings much luck and prosperity to the household.


3. Orchids
Orchids symbolize elegance and sophistication, which is why they are highly favored in households during Tet. Depending on the variety, orchids come in various colors and flower types. Moreover, orchids last long and do not emit a foul odor, making them a favorite among housewives. Orchids carry the beauty and fragrance of noble flowers, embodying the grace and elegance of a noble lady, aristocratic and luxurious, thus symbolizing wealth, prosperity, and bringing luck and fortune to the homeowner.
To ensure a prosperous new year, homeowners seek wealth, Phong Lan, especially Orchid, is the top choice for families to decorate their homes during Tet. The flowers are usually displayed in the most prominent locations such as the living room, balcony, where they receive the flow of prosperity for the family. Besides their captivating beauty, orchids also carry deep meanings due to the diversity of colors. A pot of yellow orchids represents passion and desire, pink orchids are graceful and feminine, white orchids are pure and elegant, while purple orchids signify admiration and respect... Each color exudes its own sophistication, showcasing luxurious beauty for homeowners.


4. Cherry Blossoms
Cherry blossoms represent gentle and profound love. Many people often mistake white cherry blossoms for white roses because of their similarities. Japanese families highly favor this flower, and so do Vietnamese people. They believe that displaying cherry blossoms in the house during the Lunar New Year will bring prosperity and fulfill the wishes of the homeowners throughout the year. Cherry blossoms originated from the United States and are widely loved because their name implies luck. Not only does the name bear significance, but cherry blossoms are indeed beautiful flowers with delicate, graceful appearances and various colors.
As symbols of love, not as robust as peonies, cherry blossoms represent subtle, delicate, and gentle love. Radiating sophistication and tenderness, cherry blossoms are favored by people in East Asia and Japan for their auspicious meanings. In Feng Shui, cherry blossoms are flowers of prosperity, bringing luck and fortune to the homeowner. According to Eastern culture, households adorned with cherry blossoms during Tet and springtime will have a year filled with luck and prosperity. Therefore, during Tet and spring, Vietnamese families often choose this flower to decorate their living rooms, hoping for luck in the new year.


5. Chrysanthemums
With its vibrant red color, poinsettia flowers will bring vitality to your home. Families with small children often adore this type of flower, hoping for their children's academic success and glory. Poinsettias, also known as the Crown of the Andes, can be easily grown right in your garden. In feng shui, poinsettia plants symbolize success, bringing luck and success to the entire family in the new year. The poinsettia plant signifies good luck, academic achievement, and career success. Poinsettias are symbols of academic success and excellence in the education and exams of the Vietnamese people.
The poinsettia plant is chosen as a meaningful gift for relatives, friends on holidays, weddings, and longevity celebrations. With its elegant and eye-catching beauty, the poinsettia is very suitable for decorating tables in homes and offices. Especially if you decorate poinsettias near large light sources, it will make the space more vibrant and bright. On festive days, the enduring beauty of poinsettias is highly favored for urban landscaping and home garden decoration. Poinsettias can be planted individually or combined with many other types of flowers.


6. Rose
Roses are among the most common and meaningful flowers. Each variety and color of roses carries its own significance and symbolism. In addition to using red and yellow roses with lucky colors for Tet decorations, the trend of using classic roses for Tet is also becoming increasingly popular. Roses can be chosen to display in the family during Tet with various colors.
Typically, homeowners tend to choose red roses (velvet roses) to signify nobility. Yellow roses symbolize prosperity, wealth on Tet days. These are the two characteristic colors of roses used in traditional Tet. For Tet flower decoration, you can choose rose branches, put them in medium-sized or large vases, or select antique rose pots with ancient roots, moderate heights planted in decorative ceramic pots to make the space more prominent, fresher.


7. Money Plant
The unique feature of the money plant is that they do not have leaves, which makes those who love simplicity and rustic charm deeply attached to money plants. Partly because of its intriguing name, on Vietnamese Tet, money plants are always fully present from one house to another. It is believed that displaying money plants (money flowers) in the new year will attract wealth into the house throughout the year.
In the belief of many people, the money plant is a flower that brings luck, wealth, and abundance to the homeowner just as its name suggests. Therefore, it is also one of the most chosen flowers for the beginning of the new year. Money plants, beautiful Tet flowers with many colors... With significant meanings symbolizing beauty, happiness, and wealth, everyone wishes to display a beautiful pot of flowers during Tet and the arrival of spring. The bright and vibrant appearance of the flowers makes everyone who looks at them feel love for life, love for living, bringing joy to everyone.


8. Longevity Flower
It's no coincidence that the Longevity Flower becomes a popular flower in the first days of the year. With a relatively low price and charming appearance, the longevity flower has been a familiar Tet companion for many Vietnamese families for generations. The longevity flower is often arranged in baskets with soil and roots, displayed in front of the house to herald a peaceful and happy spring.
The Longevity Flower is a flower of simple beauty, commonly used for ceremonial purposes during Tet due to its beautiful and long-lasting colors. Additionally, to decorate homes, people often use pots of golden longevity chrysanthemums for added luck in the new year. The significance of the longevity chrysanthemum is to wish grandparents and parents a long life. Furthermore, chrysanthemums also have the function of repelling harmful insects, extracting essential oils, and serving as flavoring agents for the food and tobacco industries.


9. Sunflower
As the top alternative choice to yellow apricot blossoms during Tet, the bright yellow petals of sunflowers will bring abundant energy to you on the first day of the year. Sunflowers are also easy to arrange due to their sturdy, upright stems. You can mix them with other flowers to add vibrant colors to your Tet floral arrangements. Placing a dwarf sunflower by the window in your home is unparalleled. It exudes a rustic beauty, always reaching towards the light. The symbolism of these beautiful yellow sunflowers is akin to their characteristics—loyalty, vitality, and longevity. They embody the radiance of the sun, carrying profound meanings.
Sunflowers symbolize adoration, loyalty, and longevity. Much of the symbolism of sunflowers stems from their very name, the sun—a potent symbol of life... Additionally, sunflowers are known as symbols of happiness for Jewish people, making them a perfect gift to bring joy to someone's special day or to your own... Moreover, embodying the iconic image of the sun, sunflowers also represent authority, admiration, reverence, and enduring sustainability. Hence, sunflowers are suitable for expressing emotions on occasions of love, friendship, as well as celebrations, conveying messages of jubilation and excitement.


10. Cherry Blossom
In the North, Cherry Blossoms are always the go-to instead of yellow apricot blossoms during Tet. Cherry blossoms are considered the essence of the Five Elements, symbolizing vitality, blossoming, human relations, and weddings. According to Feng Shui, cherry blossoms can ward off evil spirits. Hence, in the new year, many Vietnamese families in the North often display cherry blossom trees or branches, hoping for luck and success throughout the year. As a symbol of renewal, growth, and prosperity, cherry blossoms also bring new vitality to the new year, ensuring the health, peace, wealth, and prosperity of the household, dispelling misfortune. Furthermore, the warm pink color of cherry blossoms signifies joy, hope for a better new year than the old one.
Not only does it add warmth, joy, and coziness to the Tet atmosphere, but cherry blossoms also carry profound meanings from ancient times. Firstly, cherries are considered the essence of the Five Elements, capable of dispelling evil spirits and bringing peace and happiness to people's lives. Moreover, cherry blossoms symbolize blossoming and prosperity. Everyone wishes for a year of peace, prosperity, successful business, and happy family. Cherry blossoms sow trust and hope for good things in the future into people's hearts. Cherry blossoms bring new vitality, abundant health to the family, and fulfill all desires. The beauty of this flower also symbolizes Northern girls: gentle, elegant, and graceful... As time passes, not everyone knows all the meanings of this tree, only knowing that, during Tet Nguyen Dan, decorating the house with cherry trees or cherry branches has become a tradition.


11. Spring Bud
Spring buds are highly favored by Northerners and are now becoming popular in Southern households during Tet. Spring buds are deciduous trees, with a trunk that can range from 1 to 5 meters tall, and when placed in ceramic vases, they exude an elegant and luxurious vibe to the house. What's special about this type of tree is that on regular days, spring buds are not widely displayed like other flowers, nor are they suitable for wedding celebrations or gifts, but solely used to decorate the house during the spring season. Spring buds come in various colors, offering a wide selection for housewives to choose from.
As a unique plant species, spring buds don't flaunt vibrant flowers but rather tiny, cute buds covered in soft, silky fuzz. Spring buds typically bloom in early January, hence they symbolize the arrival of spring. In China and Vietnam, this species symbolizes luck and prosperity, hence it's often chosen to decorate homes during Tet. Additionally, spring buds are commonly sold in various colors, each carrying its own symbolic meaning.


12. Sea Hibiscus Flower
Sea hibiscus flowers symbolize the spring season. In feng shui, this flower brings wealth, prosperity, and good fortune to the family. Moreover, sea hibiscus represents harmonious sibling relationships, joyful life, and close friendship. Blooming during the Tet holiday and springtime, sea hibiscus signifies prosperous endeavors and good luck. Additionally, sea hibiscus symbolizes harmonious relationships, joyful life, and enduring friendships. With its vibrant red color, sea hibiscus flowers are warm and welcoming without being overwhelming, providing a cozy ambiance. A sea hibiscus flower typically blooms for 2 to 3 days, with its pure, gentle petals surrounding the yellow stamen always capturing attention.
During Tet, it's recommended to display a pot of sea hibiscus flowers in the living room to add freshness and visual appeal to the space. It's not unusual for guests to present paintings or embroideries of sea hibiscus flowers to homeowners on important occasions such as the new year or moving into a new home. This is because sea hibiscus flower paintings also signify 'abundance and prosperity.' The significance lies in the fact that in Chinese, the word 'đường' in 'hải đường' sounds similar to the word 'đường,' which means home. Therefore, hanging sea hibiscus flower paintings indoors symbolizes the desire for a happy and prosperous family.


13. Golden Apricot Blossom
The golden color of apricot blossoms symbolizes prosperity and growth. According to ancient beliefs, apricot blossoms blooming on Tet bring luck, abundant health, prosperous business, and wealth. In recent years, golden apricot blossoms are not only popular in the South but also favored by people in the North. During Tet, apricot blossoms are widely used in every household, symbolizing wealth and prosperity in the new year. Many believe that the more petals the apricot blossoms have, the luckier and more prosperous the house will be in the new year. Golden apricot blossoms are gentle and elegant, symbolizing luxury, nobility, warmth, and happiness. With its five-petal structure, apricot blossoms symbolize the five blessings (pleasure, happiness, longevity, prosperity, harmony), encompassing the five elements: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth. Apricot blossoms also represent nobility and grandeur.
During Tet, everyone is busy with various preparations, but no one forgets to prepare an apricot pot or branch at home. Golden apricot blossoms have long been a significant spiritual symbol for every family during Tet. The golden color of apricot blossoms symbolizes hope and prosperity. Therefore, every family decorates their home with an apricot pot, hoping for prosperity and happiness in the new year. It is believed that the more petals the apricot blossoms have, the more wealth and luck they will bring. Especially if a house's apricot tree blooms with seven-petal blossoms, it signifies great fortune. Based on these meanings, the ancestral altars of Southern families often have apricot branches during Tet.


14. Lily Flower
Bach hop may seem simple but it carries profound meanings in feng shui. Compared to other flowers, bach hop has many meanings depending on its color. Bach hop is a grass-like plant with a charming appearance, each flower resembling a speaker, emitting a faint, gentle fragrance. Bach hop is called the fairy's gift to children (Fairies give children), from the meaning of the word, bach hop means a hundred years of harmony, everything goes as desired.
Lily flower or Lily flower, also known as Lily, is one of the most beloved flowers. In appearance, bach hop is almost like a trumpet flower but the flowers are usually larger and have more colors. The name bach hop is based on the abbreviation of the phrase 'Hundred years of harmony' wishing for couples to live together for a hundred years, even until they have gray hair and toothless mouths. In addition to the meaning of harmony for couples, bach hop also symbolizes everything goes as desired, luck, and abundance for everyone. Therefore, this flower is also widely used during Tet.


15. Oleander Flower
Every Lunar New Year, the streets are filled with oleander flowers. This is a common and particularly favored flower during Tet, often used to decorate homes, offices, or companies. Thus, it can be seen that oleander is the ideal flower that helps our living and working spaces become perfect because the oleander flower, also known as the sword orchid in feng shui, has the effect of warding off evil spirits, dispelling bad luck, bringing luck, and prosperity to the homeowner.
Oleander flower, also known as the sword orchid, originates from Africa and Europe. Many people believe that this is a flower with the effect of dispelling evil spirits, driving away bad luck, bringing luck, and a cheerful atmosphere to the homeowner. Each flower color hides a different meaning, emotional shade. Every Lunar New Year, Vietnamese families often buy beautiful oleander flower branches and decorate them on the altar, in the living room, bringing a fresh, beautiful color as well as luck and prosperity to the whole family.

