This year's Mid-Autumn Festival comes sooner for Ha Noi children, and colourful of toys and drumbeats are everywhere. More and more agencies, units and parents have organised events, bought toys, guided children to play folk games. Although society is becoming more modern, the children still enjoy the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival.
Ha Noi’s Old Quarter will host the opening of the traditional Mid-Autumn festival on Friday.
A range of activities will be held at Thang Long Imperial Citadel in Ha Noi from September 19 to 23, providing students with an opportunity to enjoy the traditional Mid-autumn festival to the fullest.
Hundreds of lanterns will cast their glow across the pedestrian streets around Hoan Kiem Lake in Ha Noi, on the evening of September 13, the fourteenth day of the eighth lunar month.
Many hotels and restaurants in Viet Nam have launched their mooncake collections for this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival, or the Full Moon Festival, the second biggest festival for Vietnamese family reunion after the traditional Lunar New Year.
Locally-made lanterns of different colours and designs decorated the northern mountainous city of Tuyen Quang on September 30 night when the Tuyen Quang City Festival kicked off.
Colourful lanterns will light up Thang Long Imperial Citadel and the gates will open for the public to celebrate mid-autumn festival, beginning now and running until October 4 - the full moon day of the eighth lunar month.
Ho Chi Minh City is full of activities these days, preparing for numerous events and entertainment programs for children to mark the Mid-Autumn Festival that happens on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month.
Thu Vong Nguyet, the biggest cultural event celebrating the Mid Autumn Festival, will be held at Ha Noi’s Quoc Tu Giam (Temple of Literature) from September 29 to October 1. The event, held this year for the first time, aims to combine the festivities of the past and present, old and new, traditional and modern.
Thang Long - Ha Noi Heritage Preservation Centre will organize a Mid-Autumn Festival 2017 for children at 19 Hoang Dieu street from September 28th to October 4th.
Under the theme “The Colors of Dong Thap's Culture”, the Mid-Autumn Festival 2017 at the Viet Nam Museum of Ethnology will take place on September 30th and October 1st at Nguyen Van Huyen Street, Cau Giay District, Ha Noi.
Hundreds of overseas Vietnamese and their children in Prague, the Czech Republic have gathered at the Asian Trade Centre Sapa to celebrate the mid-autumn festival.