Opening of the 2025 Mid-Autumn Festival in Hanoi

Drum beating to open the Mid-Autumn Festival 2025. Photo: Organizing Committee

The Mid-Autumn Festival 2025 organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism at the Vietnam Exhibition Center for Culture and Arts (No. 2 Hoa Lu, Hanoi ) attracted a large number of children and parents to participate, immersing themselves in the bustling atmosphere, with many typical colors of Tet for children.

The festival is decorated with miniature landscapes, Mid-Autumn Festival trays, along with interesting and lively exhibition and experience spaces. The festival organizers said that the Mid-Autumn Festival 2025 will tend to organize activities with traditional values, promising to bring many interesting experiences.

Lion dance performance. Photo: Organizing Committee

Art performance program at the opening ceremony. Photo: Organizing Committee

Deputy Director of the Vietnam Exhibition Center for Culture and Arts Tran Quang Vinh said that the Mid-Autumn Festival 2025 is an occasion to honor the traditional cultural values of the nation and also an opportunity for the young generation to understand, love and be more attached to their roots.

Taking place from October 2 to 5, the Mid-Autumn Festival includes many rich and attractive activities. Children can directly participate in experiencing and making traditional handicrafts such as pottery making, folk painting, making figurines, making lanterns on Do paper, making moon cakes... with the guidance of artisans who are passionate about national culture.

Children enjoy participating in experiential activities. Photo: Organizing Committee

Children also experience circus arts - variety shows, participate in physical games, sports, chess, balance bikes, lion and dragon dances, learn about fire prevention and fighting, traffic safety through activities: I am a firefighter, safe driving; participate in drawing competitions, design costumes for Hang and Cuoi, explore science ...

In addition, children can also enjoy art exchange programs, circus performances, puppetry, children's music and dance, masquerade festival, fruit tray display contest and especially the Full Moon Festival with lantern procession, lion dance, and feast - fully recreating the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival atmosphere of the nation.

The program “Moon of Love” will bring meaningful gifts to students in difficult circumstances, overcoming difficulties to excel in their studies; creating a "common home" - where disabled children and autistic children are loved, respected and given the opportunity to shine in their own way. This is the deeply humane highlight of the festival, contributing to spreading the message of love and sharing in the community.

The painting exhibition brings an attractive cultural space to the people. Photo: Organizing Committee

On the opening night, the exhibition spaces, experiences, art performances, vibrant lion and dragon dances, mid-autumn lantern processions, etc. created highlights to honor traditional values on the occasion of Mid-Autumn Festival, taking children on a journey to find the roots of national culture.

Another highlight of the Festival is the painting exhibition “Autumn Paintings”, organized in a multi-colored space. Here, the public can admire unique creations with innocent and imaginative paintings by children; the creative designs of Cuoi and Hang costumes that evoke traditional beauty.

Mid-Autumn Festival lasts until October 5, 2025.

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