Vietnam is the country
with many beautiful festivals. There are hundreds of festivals each year.
Besides the Tet Holiday, the Mid-Autumn festivals and it is a traditional
celebration for Vietnamese children.
The Mid-Autumn festival dates back to the Rice
Civilization of the Red River delta, over 4,000 years ago. It is fantastic and
charming with its history. It is held on the 15th day on the 8th lunar
month (often in late September or early October) in the middle of autumn and it
is celebrated for a whole day. On this day, the adults and the parents prepare
many different foods - moon cakes, cadies, biscuits, jellies and fruit such as
grapefruit, longan fruit, bananas, apples, mango, etc. All of them are designed
with fun symbols, for example: dog, cat, mouse …
Moon cakes are the
specific cakes and are only on this festival. Moon cake, which is made from
flavor, meat, egg, dried fruit, pumpkin’s seed, peanut, is so sweet and good
tasting. Everyone sounds “How delicious Moon cakes are!” after tasting them and
can’t say no with them. Moon cakes symbolize Luck, Happiness, Health and Wealth
on the Mid-Autumn day.
Besides that, the
children are provided with many nice lanterns – star lanterns, flower lanterns
and diverse funny masks such as clown mask, lion mask, prince or princess mask
for the special performance in the evening of the full moon. Everywhere is
fallen in the active and colorful air. The main point of the Mid-Autumn is that
children use the beautiful lanterns, wear funny masks, perform fantastic loin
dances and sing folklore songs in the house’s grounds or in the streets when
the moon is rising. It is really an exciting show.
The Mid-Autumn
celebration is an opportunity for members of the family to visit and share
together everything in their year. The young generation expresses their
gratitude to the old generation. The parents show their love for their
children. Because the autumn is the time of the beginning of the new school
year, so the adults and parents give gifts to the children. And the teenagers
receive a lot of presents with many good luck wishes before the hard school
time. The symbol PhD which is made from paper represents good wishes for
success to pupils. For others, because the traditional time to have this
festival is usually after harvesting the crops, it is as the congratulation for
the full harvest.
Nowadays, although some
of the traditional toys have been replaced by modern toys, the meaning and the
performance has been kept and developed. It is certain that the Mid-Autumn day
is important and famous for Vietnamese people. Everyone wants to join in it.
And it really is good example of the traditional culture of the Vietnamese.
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