The 'Happiness and sadness on Tet holiday and Death anniversaries' by Tran Ngoc Lan is a compilation and introduction of papers composed by different authors on the spiritual issues, traditional Tet holidays and death anniversaries of Vietnamese people. The main contents of this work include two parts: 1. Death anniversaries; 2. Tet holiday. The papers in each part focus on the discussion of the writers about the sadness, happiness, activiness and limitation... told in each story which seem to be tiny issues but contain concerns indicated through every single traditional ritual, taboo or custom that are still retained in the Tet holiday of death anniversaries.