Mid-autumn Full Moon Festival to li

Mid-autumn Full Moon Festival to light up cities
Update: September, 10/2016 - 09:00
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Exploring after sunset: A night market on Nguyễn Phúc Chu street beside the Hoài River. — VNS Photo Công Thành
Viet Nam News
HÀ NỘI — The moon is getting full and the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching so close to every corner. The festival is traditionally for children but now, adults also wait for it.

Hà Nội Old Quarter will be lighten up by lanterns during the full-moon festival which opened yesterday and runs until September 15 (the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month).

The festival will feature traditional mid-autumn products, introduce folk toys making, arranging flowers, and making moon cakes on Hàng Mã, Hàng Lược and Hàng Rươi streets, in front of Đồng Xuân Market, and along the pedestrian streets of Hàng Đào and Đồng Xuân.

A series of other activities such as traditional toy making, a photo exhibition on the mid-autumn festival preservation and puppetry performances will also be organised at Kim Ngân Temple (42-44 Hàng Bạc Street) and Quan Đế Temple (28 Hàng Buồm Street).

Visitors will have a chance to talk with the artisans and enjoy their performances of making moon cakes, masks and other toys for the festival.

The Heritage House at 87 Mã Mây Street will reappear the traditional space of how a family of Hanoians celebrate the full-moon festival in the past.

During the celebration, parents prepare many different foods, moon cakes and candies and fruits, such as grapefruit, red persimmon, longan, banana, and mango. All of them are designed with fun symbols such as dog, cat and mouse.

Children wear the masks, beat the drum, perform fantastic lion dances, sing folk songs in the house’s yards or in the streets and hold a procession with lanterns when the moon is rising.

The celebration will also take place at the Hà Nội Museum on September 10-11 to create a healthy playing ground for children in the capital.

During the festival, children can participate in folk games, make toys such as star lanterns, cardboard masks and lion heads, and make traditional cakes under the guidance of artisans.

Poet Trần Đăng Khoa, who has many poems for children, will have a talk about the origin of the festival this afternoon.

Children can also participate in a folk painting contest. Best paintings will be selected and awarded at the main ceremony of the festival on Sunday evening.

Children will have a chance to prepare the full-moon party with various kinds of cakes and fruits by themselves. In addition, children from poor families will be presented gifts.