Mid-Autumn Festival check-in coordinates as beautiful as a film set in Ho Chi Minh City
Báo Lao Động•24/08/2024
Every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the lantern street in Ho Chi Minh City attracts a large number of people and tourists to visit, shop, take pictures... Similar to Hang Ma Street in Hanoi, the lantern street on Luong Nhu Hoc Street, District 5 is a place that attracts many visitors to shop and take photos every Mid-Autumn Festival in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Provided by the character Luong Nhu Hoc Street is a residential area of many Chinese people with a famous craft village producing handmade lanterns. Over time, people have become familiar with the name lantern street - a street that sparkles and shines during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Photo: Provided by the character Although there are still a few weeks left until the full moon festival, many families here have hung all kinds of beautiful lanterns, creating a sparkling, magical space and a bustling, vibrant atmosphere of the festival season. Photo: Provided by the character Mr. Bui Nhut Thanh, a freelance photographer in Ho Chi Minh City, could not help but be delighted by the beautiful, bustling scene of the lantern street: "I arrived quite early so I felt comfortable because I did not have to jostle like the days before the Mid-Autumn Festival here. The atmosphere is still the same, still bustling with buyers and sellers, most of whom come to take pictures to post on Facebook and Tiktok." Photo: Provided by the character Here, customers can find all kinds of lanterns with different materials such as fabric lanterns, royal lanterns, paper lanterns. Each type of lantern has different decorative motifs and patterns, from simple ones like flowers and leaves to complex ones like birds, landscapes, dragons and phoenixes, etc. Photo: Provided by the character The prices of lanterns here range from 30,000 - 100,000 VND/small lantern. Larger lanterns cost about 200,000 - 250,000 VND/lantern. Photo: Provided by the character The number of visitors here is also often higher on weekends. If you want to experience an open space, not too crowded, visitors should visit the street a few weeks before the Mid-Autumn Festival, on weekdays. Photo: Provided by the character In addition to viewing and buying lanterns, visitors can also enjoy a series of attractive traditional Chinese specialties such as dumplings, fried dough... which is also very interesting. Photo: Provided by the character As a person passionate about Chinese culture, Anh Nhut Thanh affirmed that he visits the lantern street almost every Mid-Autumn Festival: "Looking at the traditional lanterns mixed with meticulously crafted electric lanterns, listening to people speak Chinese, eating authentic Chinese dishes such as dumplings, fried dough, ginseng... makes me feel like I'm lost in a TVB drama from the 80s and 90s." Photo: Character provided Although crowded, the lantern street is said to have not developed as much as many years ago due to rapid modernization. "Compared to the first time I came to the lantern street and now, I see that the lantern shops have gradually become less crowded for many different reasons. I hope that the profession of making and selling mid-autumn lanterns will continue to be maintained because this is a beautiful cultural feature of the Chinese people in Ho Chi Minh City," said Mr. Nhut Thanh. Photo: Provided by the character
Báo Lao Động•24/08/2024
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