With 22 years of organization, Tet flower street in the central area of Ho Chi Minh City is considered a cultural symbol of Tet in the city.
Nguyen Hue Flower Street for Lunar New Year 2025 has the theme of "Brocade and flower country, happy spring in peace", divided into 3 segments "Unity", "Transformation" and "Development" - showing the historical stages of the Vietnamese people.
The grand opening gate creates an abstract perspective with its shape resembling both a honeycomb and a cave. Thousands of loosely woven bamboo panels are used to make the ceiling and columns of the cave, which are up to 8m high and spread over an area of nearly 1,000m2.
In particular, the mascot pair Kim Ty and Ngan Ty at the gate of Nguyen Hue Flower Street 2025 is an impressive return in appearance, size and manufacturing method compared to the mascots in 2013.
The female Ngan Ty is 25m long and the male Kim Ty is 42m long, with its entire body winding in 3 intertwined circles, forming a base more than 11m wide, with a height from the part of the body adjacent to the flower base to the top of the head of over 6m.
70% of the materials used to make Kim Ty and Ngan Ty are environmentally friendly. The snake's head and belly are covered with painted pressed bamboo panels. The entire upper back is covered with reflective mica scales, creating a shimmering effect. The total number of scales on the body of Ngan Ty is about 2,700 pieces and Kim Ty is nearly 3,600 pieces, hand-attached, combined with LED lights running along both sides of the belly.
The snake eyes are also a highlight compared to 2013 with a diameter of 10cm, painted according to the design. The bamboo bushes behind the pair of Ngan Ty - Kim Ty are also environmentally friendly creations, with bamboo trunks 2.5-12m high made of bamboo and rattan covered with round steel boxes, painted alternately in light green and ivory yellow. The hollow shape with many holes along the trunk is the light source for the pair of mascots when the flower path is lit.
The Snake lady is dressed in a checkered scarf and conical hat, simulating the shape of a king cobra with its head raised high, its entire body covered in green, measuring more than 50m long and more than 10m high. The body is made from nearly 3,000 painted foam scales, bent into 2 circles.
This year's flower street has about 90 Ty mascots with diverse colors and shapes, mostly concentrated behind the flower street entrance. The project uses a large amount of flower background, an estimated 109,000 flower baskets of all kinds.
This year, the rice fields also show a difference with terraced fields and corn roofs, interspersed with pillars decorated with brocade motifs.
In addition, the Reunification Spring scene combines many colorful flowers, along with the image of the train marking the first year of operation of the metro in Ho Chi Minh City. The middle scene is the Bong robot with an immortal flower spring outfit, the face is an LED screen with a happy expression, a bright smile and New Year greetings.
Nguyen Hue Flower Street on the occasion of Tet At Ty will open from 7pm on January 27 (28th of Tet) to 9pm on February 2 (5th of Tet).
