Customary to welcome the unique Mid-Autumn Festival around the world

Not only Vietnam, many other Asian countries also celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th lunar month.

Vietnam - Mid-Autumn Festival is a children's festival

Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam is a children's New Year, associated with the legend of Hang Nga, Chu Cuoi looks moon. The children often picked up his star lights, put on a mask and formed a lion dance troupe, drumming very well.

On this occasion, Vietnamese people often present their left cakes to the courtyard to worship the moon. Young children are eager to welcome Mid-Autumn Festival because this is the time they are bought by their relatives for many toys and candies. There are typical cakes that usually include the new Mid-Autumn festival such as: soft cakes, baked goods . Traditional children's toys of the past include star lights, lanterns, military lamps, seed lights . and not many. Many types and models are available.

In many places, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the occasion to open the contest of making and making cakes for the ladies and girls. Children will attend the procession of lights, the drum singing competition. When the moon was high, the children sat around the tray of many kinds of fruit and fruit cakes, attended the moon and broke the deck until late at night. The traditional moon cake of Vietnamese children often has scones, flexible cakes, dogs made of pomelo and some typical fruits of the autumn such as bananas, persimmon, Marketing, na, sugarcane .

China - Mid-Autumn Festival is a New Year festival

In the customs of the Chinese people, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called Tet festival. This is the time when all family members gather together. Wherever you work in a remote place, on this day, you will return to your hometown to meet your family and relatives and eat a meal together.

After the reunion meal, the family members came together to enjoy the moonlight (watching the moon) and eating moon cakes under the sparkling lanterns. One of the indispensable activities during the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival is the procession of lanterns and fire dragon dance. People believe that fire dragons will bring a lot of luck and peace to every family.

Japan - Moon watching festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival was introduced to Japan from China over 1000 years ago. But unlike Chinese people who eat moon cake, Japanese people eat sticky rice in the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival on the full moon of the 8th month of the lunar calendar is called 'the five-year-old' (the fifteenth night) or the 'Mid-Autumn Festival ' (Mid-Autumn Moon is bright).

Although, after the Meiji Restoration (around the end of the 19th century), Japan canceled the agrarian calendar, changed it to a calendar, but so far all over Japan still maintains the practice of watching the moon. Mid-Autumn Festival, a few monasteries and temples still hold a special moon viewing festival on this holiday.

Korea - Festival to celebrate the bumper season and thank the ancestors

For Koreans, this is one of the biggest festivals of the year (also known as Chuseok or Hangawi), which is also held on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, this is a festival to celebrate the bumper season and to thank Korean ancestors .

This is an opportunity for family members to reunite and enjoy moon and party together, families present rice cakes with crescent moon shape covered with seaweed, beans, peanuts . outside and food items. another on the altar. This is also an opportunity for all people to respect their ancestors. They often visit the grave, clean wild plants and clean the area around the grave, this tradition is similar to the ritual of grave on the Lunar New Year.

Korea - Autumn Night Festival

The Koreans call the Mid- Autumn Festival 'Autumn of the Season' (Autumn Night Festival). Families take bread and bring donations to each other. The cake has a half-moon shape, made from rice flour, inside is bean paste, jam, apple, . Because the steaming time, padding has expansion, so it is called.

By the time it was dark, they had to enjoy the same time, while doing tug-of-war, wrestling, or dancing performances. Young girls wear gorgeous costumes on the festival day, have fun under the giants, and play swing games.

Singapore - Mid-Autumn Festival is exciting

Here, the Mid-Autumn Festival is very exciting. At Sengkang Square, people gather to experience exciting games. This is an opportunity for the Chinese community in Singapore to showcase their rich and diverse cultural corner in Chinatown with colorful lanterns, family members gather together, share their joys. Blessed with delicious cakes and a cup of rich tea.

Philippines, Indonesia: Unite groups flood the Chinese streets

Chinese and Chinese people living in the Philippines or Indonesia always have special activities to welcome the annual Mid-Autumn Festival. In the Chinese neighborhood, each unions are crowded with parades. People wear national costumes, burn lanterns and sing jubilantly.

Malaysia - Mid-Autumn Festival is a festive season

In recent years, on Mid-Autumn Festival, in addition to the Mid-Autumn Festival festival in Malaysia (September 19-21), there is also a lantern festival on September 16. On this occasion, the streets are decorated with hundreds and thousands of colorful lanterns. This is an opportunity for Malaysians and tourists to join the road in a jubilant atmosphere.

Myanmar - Trung Thu brilliantly everywhere

Mid-Autumn Moon Day in Myanmar is called the 'Full Moon' or 'Light Moon '. In the full moon night, the houses all lit lanterns to make the city bright, the light shining everywhere. People also often watch drama performances, dancing, watching movies and many other exciting activities during this festival night.

Laos - Mid-Autumn Festival is a blessing moon festival

Lao people call the Mid-Autumn Festival a moon festival of blessing, everyone gathers with the family, tea, watching the moon. When the sunset falls, the boys and girls dance and sing during the night.

Cambodia - Mid-Autumn Festival is the "Bai chu lieu" (festival waving to the moon)

On the 15th, Cambodians organized a traditional "period of worship" (a festival that bore the moon). Early that morning, people began to prepare the offerings of lunar offerings, including fresh flowers, cassava soup, flat rice, sugarcane juice.

In the evening, people put offerings on trays, put them on a large mat and wait for the moon to rise. When the moon rose to the top of the tree, everyone sincerely prayed, blessing. After that, the elderly took the flat rice and stuffed it into the children's mouth, tucking it in until it was impossible to put it in, to pray for perfection, which was good.

Thailand - Mid-Autumn Festival is 'Moon Festival'

Mid-Autumn Festival in Thailand with many exciting activities. Thai people call the Mid-Autumn Festival 'moonlight festival'. Everyone participated in the full moon festival. Everyone sat around the tray with the typical items of autumn such as peach, durian, moon cake and wish each other good things. Especially pomelos are indispensable fruits in traditional trays. Thai people believe that pomelos symbolize fullness and reunion.