Colorful Hanoi’s street with mid-autumn toys and decorations
The mid-autumn program will run until September 27.
A mid-autumn program with the theme “The Shining Full Moon” is underway at the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long, Hanoi to promote the traditional values.
The Mid-autumn Festival, also known as children’s festival or moon-gazing festival, takes place on fifteenth day of the eight-lunar month when the moon is roundest and brightest. The program is celebrated for children with entertainment activities. |
Trays arranged in a traditional way of various fruits and animal-shaped cakes for the Mid-autumn Festival by artisan Pham Thi Nguyet Anh. |
Artisan Dang Van Hau is presenting the traditional tray at the program. |
Paper effigies of Confucian scholars are placed in the center of the banquet table, expressing Vietnamese people's wish for their children's academic success, along with eye-catching cakes, mooncakes, fruits and toys. |
The table of feast arranged in the traditional way included lotus wine, green rice, Vietnamese ham with periwinkle snails and fish salad. |
Children who participate in the program make traditional moon cakes and toys, such as paper lanterns and star-shaped lanterns, as well as paint folk paper masks, join attractive traditional games and enjoy lion dance. |
Children are making lanterns in the shape of carousel. |
Lanterns are made from beer cans and tin packaging. |
Children enjoy the mid-autumn festival at the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long. |
The organizing board of the program also launched its display on its website trungbayonline.hoangthanhthanglong.vn. |
Photo: Minh An (Kinh te & Do thi)
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