For children, the Mid-Autumn Festival is an unforgettable memory. It is the full moon with the brightest moon of the year: full and round, clear and bright, with a cool breeze, blue sky, and fruit-filled gardens.
The “moon-watching” festival is not only for children but also brings joy to everyone, every family. In the photo: Children of Phu Lam village (Phu Gia commune, Huong Khe) break the full moon feast.
This year's Mid-Autumn Festival has just passed the Independence Day holiday with many traditional festivals bustling on the rivers of the countryside, in the villages with many bright red flags and flowers. It has just passed the full moon of the seventh lunar month, the Vu Lan festival to show filial piety to parents, like a deep low note in the many tones of daily life. Entering the Mid-Autumn Festival is a high note of joy, directed towards children, towards the wishes of the full moon - a perfect fullness, an overflowing love. It is a "moon-watching" festival not only for children but also the joy of everyone, every family.
Uncle Ho was a person who loved teenagers and children very much. Of the 16 times he wrote letters to children, more than half were written during the Mid-Autumn Festival. During the Mid-Autumn Festival of 1946, in the difficult situation of the country, Uncle Ho sent his wishes to the children in poems: "I hope you will be "good" / Forever preserve the Lac - Hong country / Be famous as the Fairy - Dragon / Be proud of the Vietnamese children". During the Mid-Autumn Festival of 1951, from the Viet Bac resistance base, in the deep forest shining with the autumn moonlight, Uncle Ho was always awake missing the children.
Uncle Ho wrote: "The moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival is as bright as a mirror/ Uncle Ho looks at the scenery and misses the children/ Here are a few lines I write/ Send to you to express my longing." During the resistance war against the US, the country was divided, Uncle always thought of the children in the South. On the Mid-Autumn Festival of 1956, Uncle Ho sent a letter to the children in the South expressing his longing and looking forward to the day when the two regions of the country reunite: "The North and the South will reunite as one family/ Uncle and I will meet, young and old, and rejoice together/ Missing you all so much/ Hoping that each of you will be a child hero."
The Mid-Autumn Festival wish is always earnest, sincere, always cherished and respected with many wishes for happiness for future generations. ( Internet photo ).
Mid-Autumn Festival memories are not only in childhood but also in the nostalgia of adults. Everyone goes through adolescence where each full moon of Mid-Autumn Festival marks a maturity, a step forward. Later, when we become older brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers, grandparents, the Mid-Autumn Festival wishes are always earnest, sincere, always cherished, respected with many wishes for happiness for the children and grandchildren.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is also a time of leisure, when people can relax and immerse themselves in nature, in the middle of autumn. After a year of hard work, on the Mid-Autumn Festival, adults show their love to children with cakes made from agricultural products. All ingredients are the essence of human hands, carefully selected and filled with the essence of the earth's aroma. That is the creation of square and round cake molds to the rich flavor from the golden brown color (baked cakes) to the smooth white color (sticky rice cakes)...
The trees in the home garden also give Mid-Autumn a fullness and ripeness. That is the grapefruit full of water like the full moon; the red persimmon like the color of hope for the future; the custard apple opening its eyes like the innocent, excited growth; the bunch of ripe, fragrant bananas spreading out like a plump hand, gathering together, longing for peace. The fruit tray for the Mid-Autumn Festival is the fruit of the cause, the opposite of the full cultivation of grandparents, parents, of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, of the benevolent alluvium that over time has been filtered and clarified to spread fragrance and gather fruit.
The lantern holds many surprising secrets for children. ( Internet photo ).
The Mid-Autumn Festival wish is also conveyed in toys. The lanterns in the eyes of children are a meticulous and magnificent creation containing many surprising secrets, an attractive physical optical movement lesson. The lanterns chasing the soldiers show the eternal martial beauty of our ancestors. There are lanterns with the image of a mandarin returning home to pay respect to his ancestors, showing the tradition of learning. The youthful and fresh rhythm of the Mid-Autumn Festival drum is like the rhythm of the fields, season after season, sun after sun, rain after rain... sweeping away the hard days of sowing and reaping for new seasons of fragrant rice, for children to grow up in the scent of fields, rice, areca...
The wish for the full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival brings with it so many memories, so much excitement, so much joy like the lively rhythm of the song "The Star Lantern" by musician Pham Tuyen: "The five-pointed star lantern is bright in color/ The handle is very long, reaching high above the head/ I hold the star lantern and sing loudly/ The bright star lantern of the full moon festival night"...
Nguyen Ngoc Phu
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