Locally known as “Tet Trung Thu”, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a special time for children… So much so that it’s even called the Children’s Festival by some. The origins of this festival are said to be in the harvesting of crops. Parents were so busy with the harvest that the children had to play alone. The Mid-Autumn Festival allowed parents to express their love and appreciation for their kids after the harvest.

Autumn is all over the northern land, but perhaps only in Hanoi most significant new revenue and also most impressive. It was then as to the color of heaven and earth, the wind blew gently and slightly chilly, something that gently shake the thought of one so melancholy beauty of the moon before collection. He is also on the people of Hanoi to see select busy inside with the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Mid-Autumn festival is inherently of children, but from time to time do not know it had spread even to adults. These days the mother and sister are worried for his family shopping trays a moon looks so beautiful, it’s just polite to the needs and aesthetic tastes of the family, but also a gesture reciprocated Hang the air for Russia and the beauty of autumn in Hanoi.

Since early August of Hang Gai, Hang Ma, Hang Hom, spread both to Luong Van Can, Hang Manh, Hang Dieu … have a wonderful costume that makes even the Hanoi did not recognize the familiar streets again. Most most other goods are collected only one item is displayed toys in August: drag force is light, light melon, fruit fillings lights, lights his star, lion, Mr. La Vong to mask the type, flower buyers both eyes as well as sellers. Streets become more crowded crowded by colorful balloons and looks every fluttering flight on the street corner with the announcement recently has earnestly invited: here balloons!

Along the street, Hai Ba Trung, Trang Thi, Cua Nam presentation is listed the type of cake, candy with enough style taste, but has only found a small look saliva. But the market is the endless fruit. Well, the sorts of language objects from all over the country are meeting here for: What is the na, grapefruit, tangerine, orange, pink, pear, apple north, plus mango, custard apple, dragon fruit, durian south, then grapes, pears, apples, exotic … all as deliberately making the trays look Hanoi’s autumn moon becomes brighter, sweeter and more appealing.

Tet Trung Thu engine start since Aug. 15 lunar afternoon. It was always a table or a list of messages to court to garnish patio. Start the New Year with her two rabbits, two grapefruit pulp, the place a censer and put his La Vong fish sit in the middle, flanked by shrimp festival grapefruit dog, dog eye beads with a label, both sides are two chestnut bowl, between the four bowls of white rice extract love how the words get in the red blue purple yellow rice “Autumn moon pinyin”. Those who want to more then hung on a light ground forces pulled many chairs, each chair to one toy as the pig now, she first hit now, lion bread and fruit as candy, cake, green bean cakes, biscuits, letters, cookies Suzhou, but the cake must be presented to one in the middle of a century before the project mail list and remember that a child put on geckos powder. The other breeds such as the unicorn, phoenix, peaches, bananas, cut flowers are placed everywhere. Thus the preparation can be found was considered finished, just waiting for the lighting is dark out, light grapefruit seed is finished. Then at night, moon, the owner, usually elderly people burn incense heaven candlelight ceremony, the Buddha. While the adults sat watching the moon or the moon is waiting to eat steamed snails kids up on drums and lion dance om parts xoeng front yard, under the moon light shimmering like silver plated onto a screen across the sky.

Perhaps any one of Vietnam will have an early childhood and have moments celebrated Tet Trung Thu, whether simply rose to the nuggets alone can not forget the fun that immemorial. Fun for the lantern parade, which was hand-picked grapefruit seed for each string to a string of lamps lit to dry to full moon night in August, so that when adults have a family and then shopping festival for children, watching them dance catch the moon in the hearts who do not pay off in memory of a moon in any season.

Then, startled by the drums echoing in the distance a lion, awakens memories from the old.