Mid-Autumn Festival - Children's Festival, Family Reunion Festival

Not only an occasion for children to have fun, enjoy cakes and lanterns, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a beautiful feature in the traditional cultural values ​​of the nation, preserved and passed down through many generations.

These days, millions of Vietnamese children are eagerly awaiting the Mid-Autumn Festival - a festival for children, family reunions and family gatherings.

Not only an occasion for children to have fun, enjoy cakes and lanterns, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a beautiful feature in the traditional cultural values ​​of the nation, preserved and passed down through many generations.

Bustling Mid-Autumn Festival

During the eighth lunar month, the Mid-Autumn Festival atmosphere is bustling everywhere. From Hanoi's Old Quarter to Thang Long Imperial Citadel; from Hue, Hoi An to the Central Highlands, the South and even in the overseas Vietnamese community... the colorful Mid-Autumn Festival has brought joy to millions of children, becoming a connecting thread for the community.

The 2025 Mid-Autumn Festival, directed by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, is organized by the Vietnam Exhibition Center for Culture and Arts in coordination with relevant units, with many exciting experiential activities and art programs for children.

The exhibition area brings a traditional Mid-Autumn Festival atmosphere through colorful Mid-Autumn Festival toys such as lion heads, papier-mâché masks, paper doctors, lanterns, frog drums, cotton swans, fruit trays... along with a unique photobooth space, bringing joy to children such as "Ms. Hang's Fashion Shop," "Mr. Cuoi's Grocery Store," "The Secret of Mid-Autumn Festival." Experiential activities, making Mid-Autumn Festival toys: pottery molding, painting statues, knitting, printing folk paintings, hand-woven strings, making scented wax, making Do paper lanterns...

According to Mr. Tran Quang Vinh, Deputy Director of the Vietnam Exhibition Center for Culture and Arts (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism), organizing the annual Mid-Autumn Festival is a message affirming the deep concern of the whole society for future generations, and is also a practical activity to preserve and promote national cultural values ​​in contemporary life.

In Hanoi, the Old Quarter and Phung Hung mural space display a "fairy moon season," with thousands of lanterns and star-shaped lanterns, recreating memories of the old Mid-Autumn Festival. In particular, the lantern procession "Full Moon Festival Night" brought tens of thousands of children and people to join in the bustling drum beats. According to Ms. Nguyen Hong Trang, Vice Chairwoman of the People's Committee of Hoan Kiem Ward, Mid-Autumn Festival is an occasion for the community to connect, honor heritage and nurture spiritual life.

At Thang Long Imperial Citadel, the program "Happy Mid-Autumn Festival 2025" recreates two spaces with two themes: Traditional Mid-Autumn Festival and the Royal Mid-Autumn Festival of the Ly Dynasty. Lanterns, papier-mâché masks, frog drums, figurines, and artifacts restored from more than a thousand years ago, bring visitors back to the atmosphere of the ancient Thang Long festival...

Ms. Nguyen Lan Anh (Hai Ba Trung Ward, Hanoi) shared that this year, on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, she took her children to Thang Long Imperial Citadel to learn and explore the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival and the Ly Dynasty's Royal Mid-Autumn Festival. Her children were very excited.

Many children and their families joined in the fun in the Discovery Room at the Museum. (Photo: Le Dong/VNA)

In particular, when learning about the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Ly Dynasty, through the exhibitions explaining the Mid-Autumn Festival in the 11th-12th century, with a system of panels introducing historical documents and a system of paintings recreating the activities that took place during the Mid-Autumn Festival in the royal court more than 1,000 years ago, she and her children understood more about the traditional cultural beauty of the Mid-Autumn Festival from the past to the present.

At the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, the “Autumn Colors” space introduces folk toys combined with contemporary artistic creations, creating a bridge between the past and the present. A representative of the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology shared that each activity at the Museum is both an educational experience and a connection between generations to join hands in preserving cultural heritage, affirming the role of heritage in contemporary life...

Through activities, the public has the opportunity to explore and enhance understanding of traditional values, thereby enhancing love for cultural heritage and arousing national pride...

In Hue, the "Royal Mid-Autumn Festival" program opened for free in the Imperial City, with Bao La lanterns, lion dances, lantern processions, royal games such as card games, pink tattoo... brought visitors interesting experiences, when they could experience the Mid-Autumn Festival with their relatives and family in the space of the Royal Palace shimmering with lanterns, both intimate and solemn, so that visitors could better understand the ancient Mid-Autumn Festival of our ancestors.

In Hoi An, the Mid-Autumn Festival has become a festival of the ancient town, with the "Full Moon Festival Night" on the Hoai River, lantern processions, lion dances, moon-viewing trays and old nursery rhymes evoking a sense of peace and reunion...

Sharing the same atmosphere, thousands of children in disadvantaged and remote areas from Lam Dong to Tay Ninh also had a warm Mid-Autumn Festival. In Tuyen Quang, nearly 4,500 disadvantaged children received scholarships and gifts worth nearly 2 billion VND.

In Tay Ninh, 250 workers' children were able to join the "Full Moon Festival of Love," watch lion dances, meet Hang and Cuoi, and receive Mid-Autumn gifts... These activities show that the Mid-Autumn Festival is a place to unite community strength, where everyone shares love...

Not only in the country, the Vietnamese community in Spain also celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival warmly. About 200 parents, children, and international friends made lanterns, enjoyed moon cakes, carried lanterns, and broke the feast together...

Attending and speaking at the Mid-Autumn Festival 2025 program with children, parents, Vietnamese families living, studying and working in Spain and international friends, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung expressed his joy at being able to participate in this meaningful activity with the Vietnamese community in Spain.

Minister Nguyen Van Hung shared that Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the important holidays, along with Lunar New Year, Independence Day and important anniversaries of the country and the nation, through which families reunite, bond, love each other more, together care to preserve and promote the unique traditional cultural values ​​of the nation...

In the context of integration, organizing the Mid-Autumn Festival abroad not only helps the overseas Vietnamese community stay connected to their homeland, but also spreads the image of Vietnam, becoming a "cultural ambassador" in the hearts of international friends.

Festival of love and cultural roots

In Vietnamese cultural life, the Mid-Autumn Festival is considered a "Tet of childhood." Historical records show that since the Ly Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival has become a major festival in the capital city of Thang Long. The king organized a grand celebration from the royal court to the people, with many activities: banquets, water puppetry, boat racing, lion dances. Everywhere in the capital was decorated with splendid lights and flowers, and people were excited to have fun. Customs such as worshiping ancestors, displaying fruit trays, hanging lanterns, breaking feasts, carrying lanterns... have been passed down through generations and maintained to this day, becoming a beautiful cultural feature of the nation.

The program "Full Moon Festival 2025" received the attention and love of children. (Photo: Khanh Hoa/VNA)

For thousands of years, every Mid-Autumn Festival, children eagerly wait for the day of breaking the cake, carrying lanterns, dancing with lions... and for adults, Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival of reunion, an occasion to meet and gather with relatives and family... And Mid-Autumn Festival, therefore, is associated with innocent, warm memories of each person.

In a letter to children celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival 2025, President Luong Cuong emphasized: The Mid-Autumn Festival has long been an indispensable part of the cultural life of Vietnamese people. This is an opportunity for children to have fun, reunite, and gather with family and friends.

President Luong Cuong affirmed that the Party, the State and the whole society always pay special attention to children, always create the best conditions for them to study, practice, play safely and develop comprehensively. At the same time, he hopes that the children will always maintain the spirit of studiousness, always be good, united, loving and sharing, helping each other to progress and grow together, to contribute to building our beloved Vietnam to become more and more prosperous and civilized.

In the letter, President Luong Cuong also sent his condolences and encouragement to children living in areas affected by natural disasters caused by storms, floods, and prolonged heavy rains, causing great loss of life and property, severely affecting their lives, activities, and studies...

The letter shows the deep concern of the country's top leaders for the young generation. Not only does it encourage and motivate the spirit of learning, the letter also kindles the love and hope that Vietnamese children will overcome difficulties, maintain their innocent smiles and nurture beautiful dreams...

In the context of the digital technology boom, children are increasingly familiar with electronic games, modern entertainment... The traditional Mid-Autumn Festival has a special meaning in nurturing love for folk culture, preserving and promoting the values ​​left by our ancestors, and at the same time creating so that the Mid-Autumn Festival lives forever in modern life, spreading the message of love and sharing in the community./.

(TTXVN/Vietnam+)

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