Hanoi Mid-Autumn Festival 2025 to awaken Vietnamese traditions
The much-anticipated event promises to immerse children in the capital through magical stories, joyful experiences and cultural values.
THE HANOI TIMES — The Vietnam Exhibition Center for Culture and Arts (No. 2 Hoa Lu, Hai Ba Trung Ward) is expected to transform into a cultural playground filled with colors, laughter and meaningful experiences from October 2 to 5.
The dragon dance is an essential and vibrant tradition of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam, bringing energy, joy, and cultural spirit to the celebration. Photo: Thanh Hoa
With the theme “Awakening Customs”, the Hanoi Mid-Autumn Festival 2025 offers a rich tapestry of activities designed to nurture imagination, preserve national heritage and celebrate childhood joy.
Children will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in hands-on workshops, including crafting traditional toys and handicrafts, pottery-making, folk painting, scented wax creation, bamboo dragonfly decoration, figurine molding, and even making their own mooncakes to take home.
They can also participate in fun and skill-building circus performances such as unicycling, balancing on rollers, balls, or bamboo ladders, stilt walking, juggling, hula hooping and balloon art.
They will also engage in sports and games including balance biking, mini racing tournaments, chess competitions, lion dance performances, and outdoor play on bouncy houses, trampolines and sand pools.
They can enjoy circus-style activities, namely unicycling, balancing, stilt walking, juggling, hula hooping, balloon art, alongside sports and games like balance biking, mini races, chess, lion dance, and outdoor fun on bouncy houses, trampolines, and sand pools.
The funky fruit tray of Mid-autumn festival celebration. Photo: Thanh Hoa
The festival will feature special cultural spaces such as the “Books with Childhood” exhibition, the “check-in” area, decorated in a nostalgic folk style to showcase traditional Mid-Autumn toys, including lion heads, papier-mâché masks, paper doctors, colorful lanterns, frog drums, cotton swans and elaborately arranged fruit trays.
To deepen the creative engagement, the festival also includes an automatic photo booth. Children can take part in a variety of competitions and exhibitions, including the painting contest, a digital art competition, a fashion design competition and a decorative fruit tray competition to welcome the Moon.
Held on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month (October 6), the Mid-Autumn Festival brings families together, retells legends, and celebrates reunion, gratitude and childhood wonder.
