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    The Mid-Autumn festival dates back over 4,000 years to Vietnam's Red River delta. It is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, in late September or early October. Families gather and share mooncakes, candies, fruits and lanterns in the shape of animals and symbols. Children perform with lanterns, masks and dances under the full moon. The festival celebrates family, tradition and the harvest.

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    The Mid-Autumn festival dates back over 4,000 years to Vietnam's Red River delta. It is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, in late September or early October. Families gather and share mooncakes, candies, fruits and lanterns in the shape of animals and symbols. Children perform with lanterns, masks and dances under the full moon. The festival celebrates family, tradition and the harvest.

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    The Mid-Autumn festival dates back over 4,000 years to Vietnam's Red River delta. It is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, in late September or early October. Families gather and share mooncakes, candies, fruits and lanterns in the shape of animals and symbols. Children perform with lanterns, masks and dances under the full moon. The festival celebrates family, tradition and the harvest.

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    The Mid-Autumn festival

    The Mid-Autumn festival dates back to the Rice Civilization of the Red River delta, over 4,000 years ago.
    It is fantastic and charming with its history. It is held on the 15th day on the 8th lunar month (often in
    late September or early October) in the middle of autumn and it is celebrated for a whole day. On this
    day, the adults and the parents prepare many different foods - Moon cakes, candies, biscuits, jellies, and
    fruit, such as grapefruit, longan fruit, bananas, apples, mango, etc. All of them are designed with fun
    symbols, for example: dog, cat, mouse

    Moon cakes are the specific cakes and are only on this festival. Moon cake, which is made from flavour,
    meat, egg, dried fruit, pumpkins seed, peanut, is so sweet and good tasting. Moon cakes symbolise Luck,
    Happiness, Health and Wealth on the Mid-Autumn day.

    Besides that, the children are provided with many nice lanterns - star lanterns, flower lanterns and
    diverse funny masks such as clown mask, lion mask, prince or princess mask for the special performance
    in the evening of the full moon. Everywhere is fallen in the active and colourful air. The main point of the
    Mid-Autumn is that children use the beautiful lanterns, wear funny masks, perform fantastic lion dances,
    sing folklore songs in the houses grounds or in the streets when the moon is rising. It is really an exciting
    show.

    The Mid-Autumn celebration is an opportunity for members of the family to visit together and share
    together everything in their year. The young generation express their gratitude to the old generation.
    The parents show their love for their children. Because the autumn is the time of the beginning of the
    new school year, so the adults and parents give gifts to the children. And the teenagers receive a lot of
    presents with many good luck wishes before the hard school time. The symbol PhD which is made from
    paper represents good wishes for success to pupils. For others, because the traditional time to have this
    festival is usually after harvesting the crops, it is as the congratulation for the full harvest.

    Nowadays, although some of the traditional toys have been replaced by modern toys, the meaning and
    the performance has been kept and developed. It is certain that the Mid-Autumn day is important and
    famous for Vietnamese people. Everyone wants to join in it. And it really is a good example of the
    traditional culture of the Vietnamese.

    VOCABULARY

    Rice Civilization: vn minh la go

    Red River delta: ng bng sng Hng

    Lunar month : thng m lch

    pumpkins seed: ht b

    lantern /lntrn/: n lng


    Quiz :

    1. When is Mid-Autumn Festival?

    2. How do we celebrate this festival?

    3. Who lives on the moon?

    4. Why are the moon cakes round?

    5. How do moon cakes taste?

    6. Why do people go to parks on Mid-Autumn Festival night?

    7. What is the shape of moon on Mid-Autumn Festival night?

    8. What do children like playing with on the Mid-Autumn Festival night?

    Discuss :
    Mid-Autumn Festival, now and past? Nowadays , Is Mid-Autumn Festival still for kids ?

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