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If I understand you correctly (and I'm not sure I do) this would mean everyone celebrates their birthday on TET.
My wife celebrates her birthday in October and my step-daughter celebrates hers in September, also many of my students have birthdays outside of the TET holiday so I'm quite sure this simply is not true.

no they don鈥檛 celebrate their birthday at tet but their age is referenced to it so everyone鈥檚 age changes at tet (ie +1). That is my understanding, could be wrong.

I was born on Dec 20 (Gregorian calendar), which was Nov 4 on lunar calendar that year).聽 At the arrival of the first T岷縯 (Feb 14), I was almost 7 weeks old and that's the answer you would've received had you asked.聽 I wasn't 1 year old!聽 The idea that "when a Vietnamese person is born they are given the age of 1 at birth" was one of several age-old (pun intended) misunderstanding about Vietnamese culture that no one who knows has bothered to correct.聽

However, after a successful infancy, it's true that "their age increases by +1 at every Tet after that".聽 A successful infancy is determined with the baby's first birthday.

Twelve months after a baby was born, the family celebrates the first birthday with a celebration called "th么i n么i"聽 (quitting the crib) to thank the 12 Midwives for shaping the baby, Buddha and ancestors for protection the baby, and to ask that the baby will continue to receive the same protection for the years ahead (but no longer from the 12 Midwives as their job was done that day.)聽 Now that the risk is gone, we can give the baby the Vietnamese age s/he should have at the next T岷縯.

In my case, when the second T岷縯 came around (Feb 3), my "th么i n么i" was already celebrated, I was 15 months old but my mother said I was 3 because that T岷縯 was the beginning of the 3rd year since my birth.聽 When it comes to age, Vietnamese count years, not days, but you're correct in saying it's only a reference, not a fact.聽

Re: your example.聽 Today, if you meet a woman who says she's 27, it's safe to believe that she's 27 in 2019.聽 She may not be 27 today, but she will turn 27 soon.聽 It's rare to find a young person who says his/her age the old way.聽 Moreover, people do not give a foreigner their Vietnamese age because the foreigner only understands Western age, why gives him a different number that can cause confusion?

You can tell if a woman gives you her Vietnamese age if she uses the term "tu峄昳 ta" (Vietnamese age, or lunar age) or if the word T岷縯 is mentioned ("I'll be 28 at T岷縯" means I'm 26 in 2019, but 27 this Year of the Pig, and will begin my 28th year at the next T岷縯).

Not all young people it seems, I have a friend who was born in 1990 but she insists she is 30 already.