Mid-Autumn Festival is colorful all over the country

Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important full moon days for Vietnamese people. According to the lunar calendar, Mid-Autumn Festival is on the 15th day of the 8th month every year. This is an important holiday for children and is also known as Lantern Festival, Moon-watching Festival, and Reunion Festival. As this day approaches, children are extremely excited, waiting to go out and buy typical items to celebrate such as star lanterns, masks, and lanterns...

The legends of the Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festival are associated with Cuoi. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, localities across the country organize lion dances - mascots symbolizing luck, prosperity and good fortune.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, lion dance or unicorn dance, the mascot symbolizes luck, prosperity and good fortune. Photo: Internet.

In the past, Vietnamese people also organized drum singing and hanging lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Vietnam's Mid-Autumn Festival also focuses on children, and the Mid-Autumn Festival feast is mainly for children, including foods that children like.

The image of Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam is associated with traditional lanterns such as lanterns, fish lanterns, star lanterns... In the countryside, every August, in the evening, children in long lines carry lanterns to the bustling sound of drums throughout the village.

Vietnamese people consider the Mid-Autumn Festival a day to express their feelings for the Moon. Photo: Internet.

Moon cakes and moon cakes are also a special feature of the Mid-Autumn Festival, with the round and square shapes symbolizing heaven and earth. Nowadays, in addition to the traditional flavors, moon cakes and moon cakes are varied with hundreds of different fillings but still retain the very unique "soul" of the Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festival.

Moon cakes and sticky rice cakes are also a special feature of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Photo: Internet.

The 2023 Mid-Autumn Festival is taking place with many activities across the country. In Hue , these days, visitors are immersed in the space of the 2023 Hue Lantern Festival and the Hue Imperial City Mid-Autumn Festival at the Interior Palace and the Imperial City. Thousands of colorful lanterns shimmer in the ancient space, bringing people and visitors to experience the Mid-Autumn Festival atmosphere imbued with the traditional culture of the ancient Royal Palace. In the ancient space of the Interior Palace, the Imperial City, and the Hue Citadel, people and visitors enjoy admiring many types of shimmering, colorful lanterns. The spaces displaying and arranging traditional Hue lantern models create a good impression in the hearts of visitors.

Mr. Hoang Viet Trung, Director of the Hue Monuments Conservation Center, said: "This year's Mid-Autumn Festival activities create the premise for us to organize many experiential activities for tourists in the Hue Imperial Palace area, especially night-time experiential activities. Thereby, contributing to the development of the night-time economy of Thua Thien Hue". Hue Lantern Festival 2023, the Royal Palace is open to visitors free of charge until the evening of September 30 (August 16 of the lunar calendar). This is an event in the series of activities of the Autumn Festival, Hue Festival 2023.

In Phan Thiet, on the evening of September 28, more than 2,300 students along with thousands of locals and tourists attended the 2023 Mid-Autumn Festival with the theme "Welcoming the National Tourism Year 2023 Binh Thuan - Green Convergence, Phan Thiet Children Enjoy the Mid-Autumn Festival, Study Hard - Follow Uncle Ho's Teachings". More than 2,300 lanterns were paraded through the main streets of Phan Thiet city to the bustling sound of lion drums. A large number of locals and tourists joined the crowd, creating an extremely unique and impressive Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is an annual cultural activity of the city.

This year, the festival is even more meaningful when Binh Thuan hosts the 2023 National Tourism Year "Binh Thuan - Green Convergence". It is known that the Phan Thiet Mid-Autumn Festival was recognized by the Vietnam Book of Records - Vietbooks as "The largest Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival in Vietnam".

Although in modern life, many places no longer celebrate the full moon, the presence of moon cakes as a gift shows filial piety to grandparents and parents. Spending time cutting a piece of cake, drinking a cup of tea and chatting together is enough to bring a sense of peace, happiness and the spirit of reunion of the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival./.

Yanjiang