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title: 'Tet: Yellow Apricot Blossoms Bloom in Every Hamlet'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tet-yellow-apricot-blossoms-1965-1969/
description: A colour painted poster for Tet, the Lunar New Year, shows two young women in ao dai beside a flowering yellow apricot branch.
section: Collection
---

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[![Tet: Yellow Apricot Blossoms Bloom in Every Hamlet, 1965 US poster: A colour painted poster for Tet, the Lunar New Year](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tet-yellow-apricot-blossoms-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/tet-yellow-apricot-blossoms-1965-1969.jpg)

# Tet: Yellow Apricot Blossoms Bloom in Every Hamlet

A colour painted poster for Tet, the Lunar New Year, shows two young women in ao dai beside a flowering yellow apricot branch, with children lighting firecrackers and holding balloons before a thatched house and a New Year pole. The printed verse reads 'Yellow apricot blossoms open across the hamlets; if there were no Communist enemy, the neighbourhood and village would be peaceful and happy.' The tell is a festival scene borrowed for a wartime message, with a single clause attributing the lack of peace to the enemy.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
MAI VÀNG NỞ
KHẮP THÔN TRANG,
NẾU KHÔNG GIẶC
CỘNG XÓM LÀNG
YÊN VUI.

[small printed code at lower left edge, illegible]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
YELLOW APRICOT BLOSSOMS OPEN
ACROSS THE HAMLETS;
IF THERE WERE NO COMMUNIST
ENEMY, THE NEIGHBOURHOOD AND VILLAGE
WOULD BE PEACEFUL AND HAPPY.

[small printed code at lower left edge, illegible]
```

[← Sự trợ giúp về kỹ thuật của các nước đồng minh (ngoài Hoa Kỳ) tại Việt Nam Cộng Hòa (Technical Assistance to the Republic of Vietnam Provided by Allied Countries)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/technical-assistance-allied-countries-juspao-1965-1969/) [Thắng (Victory): Voice of the Special Forces and B.K.Q. B33, Tay Ninh →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/thang-voice-of-special-forces-tay-ninh-b33-1965-1969/)

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