“Barrels are suddenly empty and bustling outside the house

There is a happy lion dancing around

Mid-autumn festival moonlight flooded the village road

Under the golden moonlight I sang loudly.”

The songs are singing the hearts of people; recollections of mid-autumn childhood seasons flooded back; Children eagerly wait until the Mid-Autumn Festival is taken by their parents to go out, buy the star lamp, the strange face, the lantern, …

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival 2020 at Hoang Thanh Thang Long

Mid-Autumn Festival (the full moon of August every year), has become the Children’s Day (Children’s New Year), also known as the Lunar New Year or Spring Festival. On this day, people organized to display decks, looking to the moon. When the moon is high, children will dance and sing while watching the moon break the deck. In some places, lion dance, lion dance, and dragon dance are also organized for children to enjoy. This is also the time when the weather is cool, crops are waiting to be harvested, our people celebrate seasonal festivals, singing and playing.

Mid-Autumn Festival since when?

According to archaeologists, the Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam dates back to ancient times and was printed on the face of the Ngoc Lu bronze drum. Since the Ly Dynasty, Mid-Autumn Festival is an important festival of the country. The king organized festivals with activities of worshiping ancestors, boat racing, water puppet show, and shallow puppetry. In the Tran dynasty, aristocrats drank wine, recited poems, and strolled around the scenery. During the Le – Trinh dynasty, the Palace of the Lord was brilliantly decorated with sophisticated and splendid lamps.

Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam

Presentation deck

In folklore, families worship their ancestors during the day, and at night display the moon bonus. Mooncake Festival with a focus on a Doctor of Paper expresses the wish that his children will study well and succeed. Next is the moon cake; shrimp cakes, fish cakes … made from colorful colored flour; Fruits: grapefruit, nuggets, persimmons, persimmon, bananas. An old mid-autumn festival tray also has typical autumn products such as fish salad, fried snail to enjoy with lotus wine.

Torch light

On Mid-Autumn Festival, children are gifted with star lamps, tickle lamps, rabbit lamps, army pull lamps and Mid-Autumn toys. On the night of the full moon, in the bustling sound of drums, the children holding colorful Mid-Autumn lanterns together process them under the moonlight.

Lion dance

Lion dance is also known as Lion Dance. The lion dance is usually held before the Mid-Autumn Festival, but the busiest is two nights of 15 and 16. In the lion dance performance, Mr. Dia (a big-belly man-made of cloth, if not padded, one needs a fat person. fake) wearing ao dai, holding a large paper fan in hand, wearing a mask, the bald head and grinning round and grinning along to play with guests to watch dance or entertain the homeowner.

Make Mid-Autumn Festival toys

Masks, monk lights, star lights and lion heads are the most popular toys during the Mid-Autumn Festival. There are also toy ship models. The masks are usually made of cardboard or cardboard, with popular pictures of the favorite children’s characters at that time such as: lion’s head, Mr. Dia, Sun Wukong, Tru Bat Gioi, Bach Cac Tinh. ..

Types of moon cakes

From traditional to modern, moon cakes are increasingly diverse as manufacturers innovate in using different ingredients and foods for filling; mold the cake design into many vivid shapes; packed with beautifully designed packaging. However, according to the recipe for the cake crust, there are only two types of moon cake: baked cake and cake.

Mid-Autumn Festival Festival 2020 at Hoang Thanh Thang Long

In order to promote the national cultural values, Thang Long Heritage Conservation Center – Hanoi organizes the Mid-Autumn Festival Festival 2020 with the theme “Colorful full moon”. The program not only wishes to bring the children a meaningful Mid-Autumn season, with interesting and interesting activities, but also hopes that everyone can have experiences and memories of the seasons. Mid-Autumn Festival has passed its own.

Coming to the Mid-Autumn Festival Festival 2020 at Imperial Citadel of Thang Long, children and students will be participating in interesting and interesting activities such as:

• Visit the exhibition space with the theme “Colorful full moon”: introducing colorful Mid-Autumn Festival space with traditional Mid-Autumn lights (with the consultation of researcher Trinh Bach; Artisan Pham Thi Nguyet Anh who kept the art of making fruit from flour and seed of Dong Xuan; Artist Dang Van Hau restored the offspring like Pho Guest, Phu Xuyen…).
• Watch a lion dance show.
• Experience making moon cakes, making some traditional toys such as: Making paper lanterns, star lamps, monk lamps, rabbit lamps; Paint the masking paper mask.
• Join games such as: Super cute super monster, swing, slide …
• Visiting the Mid-Autumn Festival booth: Mr. Star lamp, rabbit lamp, tickle lamp, cardboard mask, iron ship, computer …

You can also see the display of “Colorful full moon” in the online form at the address: truybayonline.hoangthanhthanglong.vn.

Display period: September 17 to October 4, 2020.

Time of experience, interaction: From 8:30 – 16:30 (September 26 – September 27, 2020)

• Lion Dance performance schedule: 9:30, 10:30, 15:30, 16:00 (September 26 – September 27, 2020)

In addition, the Center also organizes a number of special experience activities for visitors at 15:30 on Saturday, September 19, 2020, including:

• Discover the performing arts of making traditional Mid-Autumn lanterns by Artist Nguyen Van Quyen; the art of pruning fruit, making fruit from flour and seedling Dong Xuan by artist Pham Thi Nguyet Anh; recovering the breeds of Phu Xuyen Guest Street … by artist Dang Van Hau.
• The historian Le Van Lan exchanged and talked about the Introduction of the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival of the Le Trinh period from the perspective of culture and history.
• Release flower lights in the ancient river in Archaeological Area 18 Hoang Dieu.

Location: The heritage Hoang Thanh Thang Long, 19C Hoang Dieu, Ba Dinh, Hanoi

We sincerely invite you to visit and experience the Mid-Autumn Festival Festival 2020 at Hoang Thanh Thang Long.