Not only is it a holiday for children, it is also an occasion for family reunion, so the Mid-Autumn Festival also contains many cultural, spiritual and artistic values, reflecting the unique identity of the Vietnamese people. This year, the Mid-Autumn Festival is even more meaningful when many exciting and bustling activities are held in the context of the country moving into a new era.
Tet Reunion strengthens community ties
In the treasure trove of traditional Vietnamese festivals, the Mid-Autumn Festival always occupies a special place. Taking place on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, when the moon is at its fullest and brightest of the year, the Mid-Autumn Festival is associated with the concept of bountiful harvests, family reunions and complete happiness.
Since ancient times, Vietnamese people have considered the Mid-Autumn Festival an occasion for reunion, expressing gratitude to heaven, earth, and ancestors, and at the same time sending wishes for a prosperous and peaceful life. The Mid-Autumn Festival tray often has moon cakes, sticky rice cakes, new green rice and seasonal fruits such as crispy persimmons, red persimmons, grapefruits, bananas... skillfully decorated into the shape of animals and flowers. It is not only an offering to ancestors, but also a message of love from parents to children, and from family members to each other.
Mid-Autumn Festival is also considered a festival for children. On this occasion, children can make and play with star lanterns, carp lanterns, and lanterns. Activities such as lantern processions, lion dances, moon watching, and feasts are maintained from generation to generation, becoming a beautiful traditional cultural feature of Vietnam.
According to Dr. Nguyen Viet Chuc, Deputy Head of the Advisory Council on Culture and Society (Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front), the Mid-Autumn Festival exists in many Asian countries. In Vietnam, the Mid-Autumn Festival has its own characteristics with cultural activities connecting the community, aiming at profound human values, meaning a festival for children, family reunion, and solidarity. Therefore, the Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festival is both a festival for children and a festival of love and community. That cultural value has nurtured the souls of many generations of Vietnamese people, becoming an indispensable part of spiritual life.
To make the Mid-Autumn Festival more exciting
Entering the modern urban life, the Mid-Autumn Festival has many changes to adapt to the new pace of life. There was a period when the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival faded away when many traditional activities were overwhelmed by new games. Traditional Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns became obscured by foreign plastic lanterns.
For many years now, with efforts to restore traditional culture, the Mid-Autumn Festival with its folk beauty has gradually returned, enriching the new life. Many localities organize traditional Mid-Autumn festivals with a breath of the times, becoming unique cultural tourism products such as: "Thanh Tuyen Festival" in Tuyen Quang is famous for the parade of hundreds of giant Mid-Autumn lantern models on the street. In the ancient town of Hoi An (Da Nang), the lantern processions, lion dances, and operas have contributed to making Mid-Autumn Festival a unique cultural tourism product.
In Hanoi , the Mid-Autumn Festival has truly become a traditional cultural festival, organized systematically and on a large scale. Museums and relics such as the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long, the Temple of Literature, the Museum of Ethnology, Hanoi Old Quarter, etc. organize annual Mid-Autumn Festival activities, contributing to increasing the attractiveness of the destination and spreading the humanistic values of the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival.
This year - the first year that Hanoi and the whole country implement a two-level local government, for the first time the city organized the "Full Moon Festival Night" lantern procession in 126 communes and wards. In particular, Hoan Kiem ward organized the program "Full Moon Festival Night 2025" on the evening of October 3 at Dong Kinh Nghia Thuc Square with the participation of 2,000 people carrying lanterns around the walking street of Hoan Kiem Lake and its vicinity. From October 1, the Thang Long Imperial Citadel Heritage Site organized the program "Happy Mid-Autumn Festival 2025" to introduce the cultural beauty of the Mid-Autumn Festival from the Ly Dynasty and display many ancient lanterns. On October 4, the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports organized the program "Fairy Moon" at the Hanoi Cultural Center and Library (Ha Dong ward).
Joining the atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism organized the Mid-Autumn Festival 2025 at the Vietnam Exhibition Center for Culture and Arts (No. 2 Hoa Lu Street, Hanoi) from October 2 to 5 with many attractive activities such as making traditional Mid-Autumn lanterns, making moon cakes, painting exhibitions, lantern processions, etc.
It can be seen that the Mid-Autumn Festival atmosphere is spreading throughout the streets, residential areas, and villages in Hanoi and the whole country. In the flow of integration, the Mid-Autumn Festival is no longer only a festival for children and Vietnamese families, but is gradually becoming an attractive tourism product, associated with heritage, art and creativity, contributing to promoting Vietnamese culture to the world. With its humanistic values, the Mid-Autumn Festival today is renewed, expanding many unique cultural and artistic spaces, meeting the increasing enjoyment needs of the public.
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