Vietnamese mid-autumn festival
Children are the purest gifts that the nature mother has given to us. To value children, people around the world celebrate many holidays for kids. The first of June is the International Children’s Day. However, some countries have their own Children’s Day. For instance, the first day of October in Singapore is the National Children’s Day. Or in Japan, Tango no Sekku ,which occurs on the fifth day of May is their Children’s Day. In my country - Vietnam, the fifteenth day of August in lunar calendar is the Children’s Day, also called Mid-Autumn Festival, is the second important occasion in Vietnam.
Mid-Autumn Festival is the time for parents to play with and catch up their kids. Parents often tell many stories to their kids on this holiday. The most popular story is about “ the moon man and his banian tree”. The banian tree had a magical power that healed people’s injures. One day, his wife watered the tree by dirty water that made it fly away from the Earth. Although he tried to pull it back, it was useless. The man and his tree flew up to the moon. From then on, every Mid-Autumn Festival, Vietnamese kids use beautiful lanterns to light up the road for “the moon man” to come back to the Earth.
Four things that are essential preparation for the occasion are fruits, moon cakes, lanterns, and lion dances. In Mid-Autumn Festival, people buy seasonal fruits such as grape fruits, logan fruits, bananas, apples. Parents usually create funny things by those kinds of fruit. For example, they use grapes to make beautiful dogs. Vietnamese moon cakes are influenced by Chinese moon cakes. However, moon cakes nowadays is an important part of Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festival. People believe that moon cakes symbolize for the peaceful, beautiful sight of the moon. Some people say that “No moon cakes, no festival”. Long time ago, people used to make them by hand. Nowadays, most moon cakes are made by the workers in the factories. The next important thing is lanterns because every
Mid-Autumn Festival is the time for parents to play with and catch up their kids. Parents often tell many stories to their kids on this holiday. The most popular story is about “ the moon man and his banian tree”. The banian tree had a magical power that healed people’s injures. One day, his wife watered the tree by dirty water that made it fly away from the Earth. Although he tried to pull it back, it was useless. The man and his tree flew up to the moon. From then on, every Mid-Autumn Festival, Vietnamese kids use beautiful lanterns to light up the road for “the moon man” to come back to the Earth.
Four things that are essential preparation for the occasion are fruits, moon cakes, lanterns, and lion dances. In Mid-Autumn Festival, people buy seasonal fruits such as grape fruits, logan fruits, bananas, apples. Parents usually create funny things by those kinds of fruit. For example, they use grapes to make beautiful dogs. Vietnamese moon cakes are influenced by Chinese moon cakes. However, moon cakes nowadays is an important part of Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festival. People believe that moon cakes symbolize for the peaceful, beautiful sight of the moon. Some people say that “No moon cakes, no festival”. Long time ago, people used to make them by hand. Nowadays, most moon cakes are made by the workers in the factories. The next important thing is lanterns because every