Mid-Autumn Festival in Phan Thiet City

Everyone's childhood has been spent with the Mid-Autumn Festival gathering with family, carrying lanterns, singing, breaking cakes, watching lion dances, watching dragon dances. But as we grow older, we tend to ignore or forget those childhood moments because of our busy lives, and every time we remember them, they are just fragmented, incomplete memories. But now there is a place to find those memories, to find the past childhood. That is the Mid-Autumn Festival in Phan Thiet city, Binh Thuan province, a festival that people often call "The place to return to". This is also a traditional festival, imbued with the culture of the coastal region of Phan Thiet, which has been formed for decades in this city. Author Nguyen Van Anh with the photo series "Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival in Phan Thiet City" recorded images of the traditional festival here, imbued with the culture of the coastal region of Phan Thiet, formed over the past decades. Every year, this festival is held (usually on the 13th, 14th or 15th of the 8th lunar month). The photo series was sent by the author to participate in the Photo and Video Contest Happy Vietnam - Happy Vietnam, organized by the Ministry of Information and Communications .

The Phan Thiet Mid-Autumn Festival (Phan Thiet City, Binh Thuan) took place enthusiastically with the participation of communes, wards and many schools in the area.

Some lanterns are even equipped with large generators to make the LED electronic lights in the lantern sparkle and shine under the full moon. Each lamp is designed and constructed very elaborately, diverse in color, image and meaning. For the mid-autumn lanterns of schools, each school and school cluster chooses for their unit's mid-autumn lanterns a unique symbol and image, but one that carries a cultural nuance very close to the fishing village people of Phan Thiet. Each lantern represents a school in the city or a group of schools or a cluster of neighboring communes and wards. In addition, each school has 80 small lanterns, held by 80 students, following behind the big lantern. The Mid-Autumn Festival has attracted thousands of people, parents and students to watch and cheer for the schools. The Mid-Autumn Festival in Phan Thiet was once voted a record as the largest lantern festival in Vietnam. This festival is not only a unique cultural tradition of the people of Phan Thiet, but also a unique tourism product that attracts more and more tourists to Binh Thuan.

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