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Mid - Autumn
What is the Mid Autumn Festival in Vietnam?
The Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam is a traditional event to celebrate the biggest full-moon in the year, which follows the Lunar Calendar.
This festival originated in the Red River Delta's Rice Civilization thousands of years ago,
The festival has gained popularity during centuries and is well-maintained until now.
When is the Mid Autumn Festival held in Vietnam?
Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month in the lunar calendar, which falls into the middle of Autumn.
It is also the time that annual summer harvest time ends up, thus people call it as an East Asian harvest festival.
On this special day, all the members of the family gather and prepare various sweets, fruit and they also prepare colourful lanterns and wear many funny masks.
What is the Mid Autumn Festival's meaning in Vietnam?
Special gift for children
It is celebrated after the summer harvest time by parents because they didn’t have time to take care of their kids thoroughly during harvesting.
Hence they took advantage of this date to create happiness for the children by buying lanterns, colourful masks, celebrating a traditional feast and letting their kids enjoy the lantern parade under the bright Full Moon.
Family unions
Mid-Autumn Festival is a short union that keeps close-knit relationship amongst members in the family.
It is also said that the roundest and brightest Full Moon in the year on this day stands for the completion as well as family assemblies.
Thanksgiving and praying
And due to this special date, people have a chance to come back home together, and they would like to express their thankfulness for the family unions as well.
The Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam is also about praying good things for everyone in the family such as success, health, longevity, and a good future.
This festival is a great event to teach the children about the tradition, close-knit family relationship, kindness and sharing, solidarity, and respect to their seniors as well as ancestors.
How do Vietnamese celebrate the Mid Autumn Festival?
Vietnamese parents will buy several items for their kids as well as décor-stuff such as colourful lanterns, especially traditional star-shaped lantern...
Mooncakes are usually used as gifts for families and friends, especially their parents and grandparents.
Traditionally, like Tet Lunar New Year Eve, there are five kinds of fruit arranged on the festive tray. The five-fruit tray of Vietnamese people will be varied depending on each region with juicy, delightsome local fruits.
People often prepare a lavish tray of festive food, put it on the ancestral altar to offer their ancestors first as common daily worship.
At night, the whole family will gather around the delightsome tray, celebrate the feast by savouring the food, admiring the bright full moon