The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has listed the mid-autumn Full Moon Festival (on the 14th day of the eighth lunar month) of Hoi An ancient town in central Quang Nam province as a National Intangible Heritage.
Nearly 2,000 Vietnamese expats in Hungary, including over 1,000 children, took part in the Mid-Autumn Festival hosted by the Vietnamese association last weekend.
Streets in Hanoi’s Old Quarter such as Hang Ma and Hang Luoc are extremely busy on the Mid-Autumn Festival night. Thousands of people flock to the streets to watch, take photos, and buy toys and decorations of the seasonal festival.
The Thang Long - Hanoi Heritage Conservation Centre is hosting a programme celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival from September 2, offering a recreational space for children.
These days, the cultural space of Phung Hung mural painting street (Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi) is lively with colorful lanterns, and dozens of toy stalls in the style of the old Mid-Autumn Festival.
HCM City’s theatres and cultural houses will offer art shows and charity programmes for children in celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival (on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month), which falls on September 10 this year.
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has sent a letter to Vietnamese children at home and abroad, as well a foreign children in Vietnam, expressing his best wishes to them on the occasion of the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival.
Vietjet is launching a golden day of promotion from 0:00 to 24:00 on September 9, offering 100,000 tickets off 99% on all domestic and international routes to welcome the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan joined students of an ethnic minority boarding school in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai at a mid-autumn festival on September 8 night.
The traditional Mid-Autumn Festival 2022 opened along the “mural street” of Phung Hung in Hanoi on September 7, with interesting activities to be held. Lasting until the official Mid-Autumn Festival on September 10, the event is being organised by the Management Board of Hoan Kiem Lake and Hanoi Old Quarter.
Unlike the gloomy scene of the previous two Mid-Autumn Festivals, the closer to the Mid-Autumn Festival this year, the more colorful Hang Ma street is, with a variety of toys and lanterns.
The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee of Ho Chi Minh City on September 7 received more than 400 tonnes of necessities worth over 18 billion VND (763,068 USD) for local orphans and disadvantaged families on the occasion of 2022 Mid-Autumn festival.
Locals in Ho Chi Minh City’s outlying Can Gio district are eager to celebrate Nghinh Ong Festival, an important traditional festival of the local community, which takes place from September 9-11, or the 14th to 16th days of the eighth lunar month.
After being affected for two years by COVID-19, the toy market for the Mid-autumn Festival has become vibrant once more this year. In the central city of Da Nang, traditional mid-autumn toys and other locally-made products have won the hearts of many customers.
The traditional Mid-Autumn Festival of Hanoi will be reenacted through a wide range of activities to be held at the pedestrian zone around the Son Tay ancient fortress from September 8 to 10.
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