Exhibition of traditional Mid-Autumn Festival and Royal Mid-Autumn Festival of Ly Dynasty

Many unique cultural activities, including the display of the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival and the Ly Dynasty's Royal Mid-Autumn Festival, lion dance performances, and many activities to experience making Mid-Autumn toys, will be held to serve people and tourists on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival 2025 at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel World Heritage Site from October 1.

Regarding this event, the Thang Long - Hanoi Heritage Conservation Center said that in order to preserve and promote the nation's intangible cultural values ​​associated with the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Center organizes the program "Happy Mid-Autumn Festival 2025", serving children, people of the capital and tourists from all over the world with many rich activities.

Specifically, the exhibition "Traditional Mid-Autumn Festival" includes stalls of ancient Mid-Autumn toys such as lion drums, frog drums, rattles, lion heads, papier-mâché masks, tin toys (tin ships, drum-beating rabbits, push-pushing butterflies, whistles...), paper doctors, moon-watching stick-beaters, lanterns, monk lanterns, star lanterns, paper animals... Among them, the most attractive are the ancient lamp models that have been restored by artisans in Thanh Oai (Hanoi) through photo sources of the Quai Branly Museum (French Republic); French Institute of the Far East such as drum lanterns, rabbit lanterns, star lanterns, shrimp and fish lanterns, double lanterns... made from wind paper or cellophane, painted in very vivid and soulful colors.

Illustration: Traditional Mid-Autumn Festival toys on display at the World Heritage Site of Thang Long Imperial Citadel.

This is the first year the Center has organized an exhibition explaining the 11th-12th century royal Mid-Autumn Festival with a system of panels introducing historical documents and a system of paintings recreating the activities that took place during the royal Mid-Autumn Festival more than 1,000 years ago. The exhibition space is highlighted by artifacts recreating scenes of boat racing and water puppetry by soldiers and people. In which, the central artifact "Kim Ngao" carries 3 fairy mountains on its back, very close to the image of a mascot with a dragon-headed turtle body, its whole body covered in golden color, on its back carrying 3 fairy mountains of Bong Lai, Phuong Truong, and Doanh Chau in the ancient legend of Eastern culture.

The display space is shimmering with ancient colors, lit by dozens of lanterns bearing the mark of ancient culture such as carp lanterns to ward off evil spirits, carp lanterns to transform into dragons, dragon-phoenix lanterns, unicorn lanterns, peach-pomegranate-Buddha-hand lanterns, water chestnut lanterns... These are lanterns that were lost and have now been restored by cultural researcher Trinh Bach and artisan Nguyen Trong Binh from traditional materials such as do paper, crepe paper, cellophane, bamboo strips, rattan, glue...

Colorful check-in space, with many impressive angles: Brightly lit flower gate, Funny tray wall, Decorative cluster of goldfish playing with the moon in lotus pond, Magical shimmering light road...

At 10:00, 11:00, 15:30, 16:30 on October 4 and 5, there will be lion dance performances. From 8:30 - 11:30 and 1:30 - 17:30 on October 4 and 5, there will be activities to experience making Mid-Autumn Festival toys such as: Spinning lanterns, butterfly lanterns, star lanterns, rabbit lanterns, painting papier-mâché masks, paper kites...

Source: https://cand.com.vn/Chuyen-dong-van-hoa/trung-bay-tet-trung-thu-truyen-thong-va-hoi-trung-thu-cung-dinh-thoi-ly-i782627/