As always, memories of the Mid-Autumn Festival are among the most vivid memories of everyone's childhood.
Beautiful childhood memories always follow us throughout our lives, are a source of pure nutrition that helps us grow up, so that each person enters life more confidently and humanely. In other words, those memories become an irreplaceable source of strength and spiritual support.
The tragic and fierce storm and flood that just passed has made the Mid-Autumn Festival of Giap Thin 2024 no longer complete. Many children in the flood-affected areas sadly will never be able to witness the bustling Mid-Autumn Festival again. Those who are lucky enough to survive the storm and flood challenge, while still in shock and not understanding what just happened, still have the right to celebrate a Mid-Autumn Festival, even if it is not as full as usual.
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| Star lanterns – a familiar image during Mid-Autumn Festival |
The children absolutely deserve to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival that they have long awaited, amidst the love and care of the community and the government. Together, they can deeply feel the value of family affection, nurturing the innocent and pure emotions of childhood.
For adults, there is no doubt that Mid-Autumn Festival is also a festival of love and sharing, an occasion for adults to remind themselves to care more for children with love, responsibility and practical actions.
Vietnam is a country of culture, of humanity and humanity. After the fierce storms and floods, there are still many urgent and timely matters to be resolved, but we need to give children the best that our locality has to offer. We can postpone festivals, activities and events that have been scheduled, but we must not forget to take care of millions of children to have the most meaningful Mid-Autumn Festival possible.
The good news is that even in many flood-hit areas, local authorities still organize the Mid-Autumn Festival for children by mobilizing resources with the support of philanthropists and businesses. The image of a star lantern or a toy that is only available during the Mid-Autumn Festival or packages of candy carried by boats and bamboo boats to each house to give to children is a beautiful and touching image these days.
On the other hand, the efforts of the authorities in flood-affected areas to organize the Mid-Autumn Festival for children is also a way to ease the pain, reassure and encourage local people to join hands to overcome the storm and flood, so that life can soon return to peace.
Those humane actions need to be spread and cannot become the subject of gossip or even off-key statuses like " After the storm and flood, there are still so many things to do, what is Mid-Autumn Festival "!
Also on this occasion, there were many speculations about a newly crowned beauty queen. They compared the image of a female teacher from a flood-hit area covered in mud from head to toe thousands of kilometers away, only having time to chew on a pack of raw instant noodles during a break. That this was the real “beauty queen”.
There seems to be something a little cruel going on here.
It is known that Miss Ky Duyen, who was crowned at the Miss Universe Vietnam contest that just took place, said that she will spend 500 million VND to support people in the northern provinces who are suffering losses after Typhoon Yagi passed. The amount is 10 times higher than the first amount (50 million VND) that Ky Duyen contributed to support all people who are heavily affected after Typhoon No. 3.
Along with this practical action of Ky Duyen, many beauty queens and runners-up in the country did not stand aside but quickly joined hands to support people in flood-affected areas. These include: Miss Do Thi Ha donated 200 million VND, runner-up Ngo Thi Thanh Tu 20 million VND, Miss Vietnam 2012 Dang Thu Thao donated 100 million VND, runner-up Huyen My donated 3 million VND, runner-up Tu Anh 20 million, beauty Phung Bao Ngoc Van 5 million VND, Miss Nguyen Thuc Thuy Tien 50 million VND. And Miss Phuong Le donated 500 million VND to support people affected by storm Yagi, Miss H'Hen Nie donated 100 million VND. This list will continue. The organizers and contestants of the Miss Tourism Vietnam Global 2024 contest have donated 100 million VND. More than 40 beauties helped clean up schools and houses damaged by storm No. 3 in Hai Phong.
Our traditional culture always serves as a foundation and illuminates healthy, positive thoughts and there is absolutely no room for promoting extreme "status" lines on social networks, contrasting events and images to satisfy an ego that is alien to the community.
Is there a time when we slow down to see how we should think, what we should think of in the midst of the challenges, perhaps the fierceness that life brings us, to come up with something holy and humane for ourselves and for the whole community? So that even in the virtual world, people have to live many times more truly.
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