Unique Mid-Autumn Festival space of the past at the Full Moon Festival

The event is organized with the aim of creating a cultural space with humanistic meaning for children and people of Hanoi capital.

The opening ceremony of the "Full Moon Festival" and trade promotion connecting tourism and local culture in 2024 will have many attractive and exciting programs, such as: Lion and dragon dance; "Sparkling colors of Tay Ho Mid-Autumn Festival" program; giving Mid-Autumn gifts to children; awarding prizes for the "Full Moon Night Feast" contest; "Mid-Autumn Festival Colors 2nd time" painting contest, "Connecting love in 2024" photo contest.

Mr. Nguyen Dinh Khuyen, Chairman of Tay Ho District People's Committee delivered the opening speech at the event.

In his opening speech, Mr. Nguyen Dinh Khuyen, Chairman of Tay Ho District People's Committee said: "With the motto "All children in the district enjoy the Mid-Autumn Festival"; this year, departments, branches, and organizations from the district to the ward have done many practical things, paying attention to taking care of children so they can have fun and enjoy a joyful Mid-Autumn Festival, filled with love. This activity is even more meaningful when storm No. 3 has just passed through the capital Hanoi, causing great damage to the people of the capital and Tay Ho district. Many children were forced to evacuate and stay home from school to ensure safety from natural disasters and floods.

With the goal of organizing a warm, family-reunion Tet holiday in accordance with traditional national customs, thereby encouraging families and especially children to overcome difficulties and soon stabilize their lives after the storm, in recent days, Party committees at all levels, authorities, and socio-political organizations in Tay Ho district have organized giving Mid-Autumn gifts to children, especially at evacuation points; organizing Mid-Autumn lantern parades, art programs for children... attracting a large number of children to participate.

In particular, children from near-poor households and those in especially difficult circumstances have been cared for and looked after through practical activities, demonstrating the deep love and responsibility of Party committees, authorities, Fatherland Front, and district and ward organizations.

"This year's Mid-Autumn Festival, Storm No. 3 had complicated developments, causing great damage to the northern provinces; seriously affecting production and people's lives. The business community, especially enterprises and production households in localities heavily damaged by the storm, have been urgently taking action to restore production and business. Along with the efforts of the business community, it is necessary to have support programs, remove difficulties, and promote production and business for enterprises", the Chairman of Tay Ho District People's Committee emphasized.

Special art performance at the program. Photo: Van Hai

Participating in the "Full Moon Festival", children, people and tourists will be immersed in the ancient Mid-Autumn Festival space with booths designed with bold Northern culture, close to daily life in the Vietnamese countryside, such as: communal house yard, water wharf, star fruit tree, pond bank, bamboo hedge, fence, well, water jar with coconut shell... This is a special space that Tay Ho district and the Institute of Research on Vietnamese Ethnic Cultures together with a team of artists and artisans wish to create during the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2024.

Children, people and tourists will have the opportunity to enjoy Tay Ho cuisine; visit and participate in special event activities, such as: Cooking sticky rice, lantern procession and floating flower lanterns; displaying fruit trays; traditional flower arrangements; enjoying Tay Ho lotus tea, green rice sweet soup; visiting the space displaying traditional mid-autumn art photos; instructions on making traditional moon cakes, making mid-autumn toys, drawing papier-mâché masks, traditional masks, making traditional star lanterns, crab lanterns, fish lanterns, molding clay figurines, making bamboo dragonflies, pulling lanterns, hanging lanterns on the wishing tree...

Many Mid-Autumn Festival activities attract people to participate. Photo: Van Hai

The "Full Moon Festival" also has the participation of 100 booths introducing and promoting typical and unique products and craft villages of Hanoi city; booths displaying, introducing and trading products of enterprises from provinces and cities; space for product demonstration, tourism and culture promotion; decorative landscape space, stage, welcome gate combined with check-in areas with the Mid-Autumn theme.

The festival is a meaningful gift that the authorities and sectors of Tay Ho district give to the children in the district, creating more motivation and joy for them to confidently enter the 2024-2025 school year.

Source: https://www.congluan.vn/doc-dao-khong-gian-tet-trung-thu-xua-tai-dem-hoi-trang-ram-post312505.html