Mid-Autumn Festival sends all love

The 1st Congress of Thai Nguyen Provincial Party Committee, term 2025-2030, was a great success, opening a new journey full of expectations and beliefs. In the context of entering a new era with the whole country, despite being busy, the province has had many activities with special attention for children on the occasion of this Mid-Autumn Festival. The common spirit is that all future citizens of the country living in 92 communes and wards of the province have a Mid-Autumn Festival with full love.

The bustling, joyful atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival lantern procession at Vo Nguyen Giap Square (Phan Dinh Phung Ward). Photo: NV

Exciting Mid-Autumn Festival

For the whole month, the joyful and excited atmosphere has covered the upper reaches of the Nhu Nguyet River (Cau River). Since the first new moon of the month, the residential areas have been bustling with preparations for the full moon festival.

The children were the most excited, while their grandparents and parents calmly and meticulously whittled each bamboo stick to make star lanterns, lanterns shaped like soldiers, and animal lanterns. While watching adults make lanterns, children also listened to fairy tales, each story beginning with the two words “Once upon a time”.

There have been many “Old Days” that have passed through the autumn moon seasons, leaving behind memories for each generation growing up with the story of “Uncle Cuoi sitting under the banyan tree”. Despite the “buffalo eating rice”, Uncle Cuoi still sat there innocently, witnessing generations of children grow up and become useful citizens to society.

This year’s Mid-Autumn Festival is more special for children in Thai Nguyen province, as for the first time a series of cultural activities combined with promoting tourism potential are organized at the provincial level. The theme “Mid-Autumn Festival Sends Love” spreads widely, bringing joy and warmth to all children, especially poor children, children in remote areas and children in difficult circumstances.

Star lanterns are decorated on a street in the center of the province.

The bright Mid-Autumn Moon illuminates every country road for children to carry lanterns. Many children today find it hard to imagine the story of children in the past stringing grapefruit seeds and drying them to make Mid-Autumn lanterns. In modern society, battery-powered or candle-powered Mid-Autumn lanterns are much more convenient, but the number of people who know how to tell fairy tales is still small.

Mid-Autumn Festival lights and toys are now diverse and modern. Besides star lanterns, spinning lanterns, and drums that remind us of our childhood, there are also many fun toys produced on industrial production lines.

Mid-Autumn Festival comes to every child

To bring Mid-Autumn Festival to all children, in addition to residential areas organizing parties for children, Thai Nguyen organized for the first time a provincial-level Mid-Autumn Festival program on October 3 and 4 (ie August 12 and 13 of the lunar calendar) at three central locations of the cluster.

The cluster of 30 communes and wards in the center of the province was held at Vo Nguyen Giap Square and some streets in Phan Dinh Phung Ward. The cluster of 30 communes and wards in the South was held at Van Xuan Square and some streets in Van Xuan Ward. The cluster of 32 communes and wards in the North took place at Song Cau Walking Street, Bac Kan Ward.

Three locations held the “Full Moon Festival” at the same time, children in all regions felt the love of adults. At each location, provincial leaders came directly to share joy with the children, break cakes and watch the moon.

On the streets appear many unique and beautiful Mid-Autumn lantern models.

This activity also demonstrates the fairness and equity of all levels, sectors, authorities and the whole society towards children, especially those in difficult circumstances, children from poor and near-poor households, children in areas with large ethnic minorities, mountainous areas, orphans, children with serious illnesses or being treated at medical facilities.

Within the framework of the Mid-Autumn Festival program, many useful activities were organized, including: Mid-Autumn lantern model competition, lantern procession competition, beautiful Mid-Autumn festival tray competition, lantern decoration; free medical examination for 1,200 children; photo exhibition of the journey "Lanterns light up dreams" in 2025; along with fun activities, experiences and exchanges. These activities have created closeness and friendliness for children from many different ethnic groups and regions.

The Vietnam Association for the Support of the Disabled and Orphans cooperated with charitable organizations and individuals to give Mid-Autumn gifts to children in special circumstances in Vo Tranh commune.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is bustling with the sound of drums and lion and dragon dances. In residential areas across the province, children are organized to have fun, enjoy feasts, and thousands of gifts are handed out. Although the moon cakes are small, they are enough to encourage children to be good, study well, be grateful to their parents and teachers, and be polite to adults.

The Mid-Autumn Festival atmosphere is filled with colorful lights and flowers, along with bustling lion dances and drums from the Mid-Autumn Festival centers. The drums for children inspire people, echoing to faraway, remote lands like a message, encouraging children to confidently grow up in the loving arms of grandparents, parents and the whole community.

Not only during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the work of caring for and protecting children has always received special attention from all levels and sectors of Thai Nguyen province. Currently, the whole province has nearly 41,000 children. In recent years, in addition to focusing on socio-economic development and improving the material and spiritual life of the people, the provincial leaders have always paid attention to caring for and protecting children, especially those in special and difficult circumstances, in order to help them stabilize their lives, fully exercise their children's rights and integrate into the community.

Child protection activities are implemented at three levels: prevention, intervention to reduce risks, and support for recovery and integration of vulnerable children.

Children are well cared for at the Bac Kan Center for Supporting the Development of Inclusive Education.

In particular, through the province, businesses have carried out many practical activities, such as: supporting boarding meals for ethnic minority children from poor households; organizing screening and surgery appointments, providing free orthopedic devices for children with motor disabilities; supporting congenital heart surgery for children in difficult circumstances; and donating wheelchairs to disabled children.

All orphans, abandoned children and children in difficult circumstances are cared for and assisted promptly. This year, for the Mid-Autumn Festival, provincial leaders personally went to localities and presented gifts to nearly 300 special and disadvantaged children.

A season of loving moon has spread the warmth of human love everywhere, lighting up childhood dreams, especially for children in difficult circumstances. At the source of the Nhu Nguyet River, this year's Mid-Autumn Festival is like the starting point for the journey of spreading love, so that the following moon seasons will be even warmer, brightening the smiles of children under the full moon of August in the era of renewal.

Source: https://baothainguyen.vn/xa-hoi/202510/trung-thu-gui-tron-yeu-thuong-5650c78/