These days, the atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival on the streets and residential areas has been bustling and jubilant from urban to rural areas. The market for lanterns, candies, and toys with diverse designs and types, and many lion dance troupes have completed their training programs, ready to serve the people's need to enjoy the arts. All promise a joyful and meaningful full moon season for teenagers and children in the province.
Quang Anh Lion Dance Troupe has been practicing and performing for over a month now to serve the needs of people, agencies and businesses - Photo: HN
Since the seventh lunar month, every night, the Quang Anh Lion Dance Troupe - Hao Dung Quang Tri Branch has been present at the area next to Muong Thanh Hotel (Dong Ha City) to practice. The beautiful dance movements combined with the sound of drums and the colors of the lions have made countless children excited and eager.
The members of the troupe said that whether it was a practice session or a performance, the troupe attracted a large number of teenagers, children and parents to watch and cheer. Mr. Tran Ngoc Quang, Head of the Quang Anh Lion and Dragon Art Troupe, said: The Quang Anh Lion and Dragon Art Troupe was established in 2019. On the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2019, the troupe built its brand when performing Mai Hoa Thung on many streets and entertainment centers in Dong Ha City. From the initial small number of members, we have now attracted many talented and enthusiastic young people to join the troupe, with 60 members.
According to the concept, lions, dragons and unicorns symbolize luck, happiness and prosperity. Therefore, this year, the members of the troupe tried to practice early and make every effort to have impressive and beautiful lion, dragon and unicorn performances with the desire to bring joy, fortune and success to businesses, services, agencies, units and viewers. We are currently practicing hard to serve the needs of customers and people with the principles of enthusiasm, dedication, civility and politeness.
In addition, the troupe also assigned people to ensure safety during the performance and comply with all regulations on ensuring security and order at the place where the troupe performs. In addition to performing for the people, from now until the end of the Mid-Autumn Festival, our troupe has received many invitations to perform for agencies, units, companies and schools throughout the province.
With a large number of members, Quang Anh Lion Dance Troupe can form many teams to perform at many different locations in the province, contributing to the joyful and exciting atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
In districts, towns and cities in the province, many children and youth union members gather at the neighborhood cultural houses every evening to practice together for performances on the local Mid-Autumn Festival night.
In the atmosphere of the days leading up to the Mid-Autumn Festival, many streets in Gio Linh district are brightly colored with lanterns, toys and decorations. According to the reporter, many children's toy businesses in Gio Linh district have imported toys for the Mid-Autumn Festival with diverse designs and prices suitable for people's income levels.
Ms. Phan Thi Le Thuy, owner of Ken Children's Toys in Gio Linh town, Gio Linh district, said: "Last year's Mid-Autumn Festival, I sold quite a lot of toys for children. Therefore, this year, I proactively selected and imported a large number of Mid-Autumn Festival toys early with many types of products; rich in designs. In addition to traditional lantern models such as star lanterns, lantern models that are popular with many children are carp lanterns, Doraemon, Pikachu, dinosaurs, superheroes, sun lanterns...
These products are all priced appropriately to the income of people in Gio Linh town. Specifically, a small lion head costs 130,000 VND, a princess lantern that plays music costs 110,000 VND, and small hand-held lanterns cost from 35,000 to 50,000 VND... Starting from the beginning of the 8th lunar month, my establishment has sold quite a lot of toys, and the number of parents bringing their children to choose toys to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival has gradually increased.
This year’s Mid-Autumn Festival, most of the lanterns and toys on sale are regularly inspected by authorities to ensure they have clear origins, diverse and beautiful designs, and reasonable prices. In particular, there are many models of toys and lanterns printed with “trendy” images on social networks that attract many children to buy.
At markets, supermarkets, and stalls across the province, the fruit and candy market serving children this year's Mid-Autumn Festival has also become very vibrant. At stalls selling moon cakes from brands such as Kinh Do, Huu Nghi, Bibica, Bao Minh, Khanh Hoa Bird's Nest... in Dong Ha City, there are many types of cakes with diverse flavors, designs, and prices to meet the diverse needs of consumers. Although these stalls have been on sale since very early, it is only now that they are "lively" when the number of customers increases.
Mr. Nguyen Minh Ngoc, a sales staff of Khanh Hoa Salanganes Nest Company, said that the company has opened a kiosk selling salanganes nest mooncakes in Ward 1, Dong Ha City for more than half a month now. Like every year, this year's mooncakes of the company focus on bird's nest ingredients and cakes that are nutritious, low in calories, and quite diverse in design; along with traditional products such as baked cakes with mixed fillings and soft fillings that are loved by many children.
Regarding price, single bird's nest mooncakes cost from 70 - 120 thousand VND/piece; gift boxed mooncakes come in sizes of 2, 4, 6/piece with prices from 164 - 782 thousand VND/box.
According to Mr. Ngoc, currently the company's booth sells an average of 20 individual cakes per day along with many boxes of 2 cakes and 4 cakes for customers to give as gifts. It is expected that in the next few days, the demand for cakes will increase as the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, which is also the time when people have more time to enjoy the meaningful moon season with family, relatives and friends.
Hopefully, with careful preparation and attention from parents as well as the whole society, children in the province will have a meaningful Mid-Autumn Festival.
Hoai Nhung
Source: https://baoquangtri.vn/ron-rang-cho-mot-mua-trang-188308.htm
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