Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam
According to Phan Ke Binh in Vietnam custom book, "My people of the 19th century, three have the same first day, with prizes up to display the moon. Palm oil is used moon cake and more cake Left of fruit, staining the colorful, red green, white and yellow. Girl in skilled test different city, peeled papaya into these flowers, molding powder shrimp, whales ... ".
Latency children playing in the Mid-Autumn Festival is the second such paper backing of elephants, horses, unicorns, lions and dragons deer, shrimp, fish, butterflies, praying mantids, ... Children evening moon night, bundled together tug, began drilling the lake, lantern parade, procession of lions, drums, cymbals.
On this occasion, people buy moon cakes, tea, alcohol to ancestors in the evening when the full moon just rising. Also on this day, people often give to grandparents, parents, teachers, friends, relatives and other benefactors mooncake, fruits, tea and wine. The Chinese are often held in Chuseok dragon dance, lion dance but Vietnamese or lion dance. Lan Son symbolizes luck, prosperity and bode well for every home ... In ancient times, Vietnamese people also held Drum singing and hanging lights invading troops during Tet Trung Thu. Military drum cadence to the beat of three "popped, barrels, suddenly".
According to tradition the Vietnamese, Tet Trung Thu, the presentation engine adult children to celebrate Mid-Autumn, buy and do all sorts of lanterns lit with candles to hang in the home and to the lantern parade. Happy moon deck include moon cakes, candy, cane, grapefruit and these other fruit.
Procession of light.
In some rural areas, where neighbors relations are still preserved and respectfully, people often organize together children lantern parade around the villages and towns in mid-autumn night. Festival lantern parade can be launched by the local authority or the youth group in the village. They assigned each do what he so huge lanterns or beautiful lanterns to compete with each other in a candlelight procession. In Phan Thiet (Binh Thuan), people organized large-scale lantern parade with thousands of elementary school students and junior high all over the streets, this festival established record in Vietnam. It is mid-autumn festival lantern parade tradition for hundreds of years, and the scale of the festival in Phan Thiet each year an epic and bigger, but also his "trade" more. In Tuyen Quang also large carnival procession lights, totally mobilized from the creativity of the people, every village and every hamlet has not been commercialized.
Lion dance
Lion dance (in the north known as lion dance though Lions do not have horns) are usually held before the festival but the busiest night of 15 and 16 are two
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Autumn feast usually focus dog made with grapefruit cloves, mounted 2 black bean eyes. Around has presented more fruit and baked goods, cakes mixed plastics or pig-shaped cakes vegetarian mother with baby fat pig stubby, or shaped carp are popular figure. Seeds are usually peeled grapefruit and oblique to the wire, dried for 2-3 weeks prior to the fifteenth day, and the night moon, grapefruit seed ropes are brought by burning bright. These fruits, food typical of this occasion is bananas and cereal, fruit market, red and pink pickled green, few na dai ... fruit and berries, grapefruit is indispensable. Until the moon rises to the top deck was the moment break, everyone will enjoy the taste of Tet Trung Thu. Etiquette looks moon also involves the integration Note Pebbles on the moon, so one day Cuội away, uprooted tree that you fly up to heaven, he notes Cuội roots cling to cling to but not be and has been flying over the moon with all its plants. Looking up at the Moon, we can see a clear picture of a sunspot ancient trees have him sitting under, and children believe that it is the uncle Cuội sitting banyan tree.
Do Trung Thu toy
masks, lamps monk , lights star and lion he is the most popular toys in the Autumn holidays. In the south, two cities of Hoi An and Saigon famous throughout the country for defense technology decorative lanterns and paper lamps in Tet Trung Thu. Previously in the north, while the subsidy period (1976 - 1986), toys for children on the occasion of Mid-Autumn Festival is very rare, the majority of families often homemade toys as in light, his light Bar, light him back, pulling troops lamp, mask, inquisitive he, vane ... for children in the family. There are also models of toy ships. The masks are usually made of cardboard or paper mache, with the popular image of the characters children love the time such as lion, Mr. Land, Sun Wukong, Zhu's, Crystal White Essence. .. Today, the majority in Vietnam toys originating in China, the masks are made of thin plastic, not as beautiful as the previous mask.
Sing military drum
in northern New Year also sang military drum . A male and female sing repartee together, just the beat in a barbed wire or wire stretched on an empty tank, turn off the word "suddenly baggy" rhythm for the song. The question that is sing sing transportation alphabetically, according to sing puzzle or when available, sometimes at the new theater improvised place. The repartee of the empty theater troops are happy and sometimes challenging because the devilish puzzles.
The custom of giving gifts
Autumn Festival people often give gifts to each other. Offers usually cake boxes, lanterns, clothes, money. The agency, now also give gifts to customers, staff and workers have to buy the whole truck mooncakes. Many companies with thousands of workers, thousands of gear box set with some generous commissions.
Count on mooncakes total consumption in 2006 (statistics from the manufacturers) estimated 6.500- 6.800 tonnes, taking the average price of 1 box cake type 220 - 250gr 100,000 - 130.000d, consumers have spent more than 800 billion for all of about 7 million boxes of cake boxes banh.Va expensive as gold, poor people could not afford just run around from person to person.
The object of adult gifts usually superiors as parents, superiors, who should ask for help, teachers, or perhaps neighbors, friends or children nephew indoors. Gift recipients often become more important to value the higher gifts. Autumn Gift giving is a common practice when life quite up after renovation, it can be a form of negative when the value is too large gift.
For businesses or individuals that do not have gifts donations may be considered neglect or despise so this is no small cost to the occasion when the moon. Costs are usually gifts from cost living expenses in cash. Because the commission or discount of the bakery high (up to 35%), many people prefer to use the money to give him authority to benefit.
The moon expensive gifts is an opportunity "favor" of adults . Many people often take advantage of this opportunity to give him presents to buy semi-official agency. The special box cake of bread that's inside "is gold", "the dollar" has blinded many corrupt officials and give him during the Mid-Autumn Festival is a percentage of these ingredients.
Enjoy the moon
Apart sense games for children and adults, the Moon Festival is an opportunity for people to predict crop stargazing and national destiny. If the moon is yellow, the same year revenue will hit the silk season, collecting blue moon or if the five continents that will be a disaster, and if the moon collection in bright orange, the country will be prosperous.
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