Write about Mid Autumn festival

Among beautiful festivals in Vietnam, Mid-Autumn Festival seems to be one of the most fascinating and colorful festivals. The Mid-Autumn festival is mainly celebrated for children in Vietnam to enjoy their best time in a year. Yet, mid-autumn festival in Vietnam, nowadays, is not only attractive to children, but also adults who wish to have a chance to remind their childhood and feeling young again. The Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam is always celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month in lunar calendar. The festival is seen as the second most important traditional festival in Vietnam, just after Vietnam Lunar New Year Festival. As the festival is a traditional festival in almost Asian countries, there are several names to call it: Moon Festival, Moon Cake Festival, Children’s Festival, etc. In this occasion, many funny and interesting activities take place. Making lanterns is one of the activities in this festival. Such funny masks and various lanterns are carefully made by skillful artisans. Meanwhile, adults prepare parties with many different foods from Moon Cakes, candies, and biscuits to fruits. Among those, Moon Cake is the most important and specific cake which is only produced in this festival. The meaning of this cake is symbolizing Luck, Happiness, Health and Wealth. Besides, children during the festival are provided with many nice lanterns of all interesting shapes like star, flower and various funny masks used for special performances in the full-moon evening. The main activity of the Vietnamese festival is that children take the beautiful lanterns, wear funny and colorful masks, and then perform fantastic lion dances, sing folklore songs in the house’s grounds or in the streets when the moon is rising. As this is a chance for family members reunite and share everything together. The young will express their gratitude to the old, while children will receive love and gifts from their parents.Todays, although traditional hand-made toys and lanterns have been gradually replaced by modern ones, meanings and traditional performances have been maintained and developed. The Mid-Autumn Festival has been always one of the most important Vietnamese festivals. It is really a good time for you to remind all wonderful memories in your childhood.
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