When is the Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam?

When is the Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam? Is it the Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam and China?

Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festival is on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, which is the same day as the Mid-Autumn Festival in China.

Vietnamese celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, which is called TtTrungThu. In Vietnam, Mid-Autumn Festival is a children's day besides family reunion, and children are the theme of this day. This is similar to the Cantonese folk custom in China.

Why is Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam Children's Day? According to Vietnamese folk saying, before the Mid-Autumn Festival, parents can't take care of their children, and children can only take care of themselves. Therefore, as soon as the Mid-Autumn Festival is over, Vietnamese parents celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in August of the lunar calendar, on the one hand, to celebrate the harvest, and on the other hand, to make up for the lost time by taking it as a day to express their affection and care for their children. With the passage of time, Mid-Autumn Festival has evolved into Children's Day in Vietnam.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival, children will light gorgeous lanterns early in the morning, sing along the road and have a candlelight garden. The candlelight of lanterns represents hope, and the garden symbolizes success.

Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festival children like carp lanterns best, which means carp yue longmen. According to legend, there was a kind of carp in ancient times, which was harmful after being refined. In order to save the people, Bao Gong tied a carp lamp to the town with paper. Therefore, children have to travel with carp lanterns on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival. On the one hand, it is to pray for future peace, on the other hand, it also indicates that children will "jump the dragon gate" when they grow up.

Legends and special foods of Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam

There are legends such as Chang 'e and WU GANG in China Mid-Autumn Festival, and there is also a Vietnamese version of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon's Legend of A Gui. According to legend, there was a man named Agui in ancient Vietnam who helped people treat diseases for free. When he saw a doctor, he didn't use medical skills, but used a bodhi tree he planted. Gui used the bodhi tree everywhere and cured many poor people's diseases. Then one day, the bodhi tree in Pell's hand suddenly rose into the sky and brought Pell to the moon. In order to thank Agui for his help and to commemorate Agui's medical ethics of saving lives, the poor villagers who were cured put up lanterns outside their homes on August 15th of the lunar calendar to congratulate Agui on flying into the sky. Since then, this story has been associated with the Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam and has been preserved to this day.

Many folk customs of Vietnam Mid-Autumn Festival are similar to those of Guangdong and Guangxi, such as lion dancing. The moon cakes eaten in Mid-Autumn Festival are also Cantonese moon cakes.

In addition, there is a Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festival special food, which is pork cake. Pig cage cake, also known as pig cage cake, is a traditional food given to the elderly or children by Cantonese and Vietnamese during the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is named after being made into the shape of a pig. In the past, before baking moon cakes, the baker had to test the temperature of the oven to make the crust of the moon cakes crisp and moderate, so the baker would bake the dough without stuffing in the oven as a test before baking moon cakes. This experimental cake is the origin of pig cake. This beautiful and fun moon cake is deeply loved by Vietnamese children.

What are the customs of Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam?

(1) In the evening, children will travel with carp lanterns, and lantern festivals and lion dances will be held in various places.

Vietnamese also celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, and eat moon cakes to enjoy the moon, but the Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam is mainly celebrated by children! On the Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam, parents will give their children colorful lanterns, toys and various snacks. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the happiest day for Vietnamese children.

Speaking of the origin of Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam, because the 15th day of the eighth lunar month happens to be the time when rice is ripe and harvested, at this time, every household should worship the land god. Before the harvest, adults in every household are usually busy with farming and don't have much time to play with children, so they use the Mid-Autumn Festival to celebrate the harvest and give them more compensation. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, Vietnamese children will listen to the legend about A Gui, which tells the story of a carp that once harmed people after it turned into sperm. Some people tied carp lanterns with paper to curb the fish demon. Therefore, Vietnamese children have to travel and play with carp lanterns on Mid-Autumn Festival night, which also indicates that they will "jump the dragon gate" when they grow up. In addition, some places in Vietnam will organize lion dance activities during festivals, usually held on the evening of August 14th and 15th of the lunar calendar. During the festival, local people sit around the yard or go out with their families, place snacks such as moon cakes and fruits, enjoy the moon and taste delicious moon cakes. The children are carrying all kinds of lanterns and playing in small groups.

(2) listen to aki. Children and carp are the most expensive in Vietnam's Mid-Autumn Festival. Ghost is equivalent to the Vietnamese version of Chang 'e. It is said that after the ghost got the fairy tree, it was not watered with sewage according to the fairy training. As a result, Xianshu flew to the Moon Palace, and Gui was also blamed for uprooting by hand. At night, the lanterns are all out. Legend has it that carp hurts people after becoming refined. Bao Gong tied carp lanterns to save people's lives. As a result, children all listen to the legend of "A Gui" on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, and also take carp lanterns to travel and play, which indicates the meaning of "jumping the dragon gate" when they grow up. This is the Mid-Autumn Festival toy market in Hanoi, Vietnam. A vendor is selling traditional masks.