What is the significance of the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2024 in Vietnam?

How many days left until Mid-Autumn Festival?

Note: The Mid-autumn Festival in 2024 discussed in this article is celebrated in Ninh Binh.

The Mid-autumn Festival is also called the Moon Festival, the Lantern Festival, or the Reunion Festival according to the Lunar calendar. It is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month every year. It is a traditional festival celebrated in Vietnamese culture.

Today is Monday, August 26, 2024 (Gregorian calendar) - June 23 (Lunar calendar). That means there are 52 days left until the Mid-autumn Festival in 2024. In less than a month, everyone, including children and students, can look forward to celebrating a meaningful Mid-autumn Festival with their families.

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What is the significance of the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2024 in Vietnam?

The Organization Plan for the “Mid-autumn Festival in 2024,” issued with Decision 2457/QD-BVHTTDL in 2024, is as follows:

The “Mid-autumn Festival in 2024” is an annual activity aimed at creating a beneficial playground for youth and children on the occasion of the traditional Mid-autumn Festival of the nation. Activities in the Festival will take the children into dreams, magical stories, and future aspirations, contributing to the complete personality development of Vietnamese people, preserving the national cultural identity.

This is not just an occasion for adults to show concern for the children, an opportunity for family reunions, but also a playground that brings joy and happiness to the children, allowing them to learn about traditional customs. The joyful moments, games, and activities with family and friends will be beautiful memories for the children.

What are activities during the Mid-autumn Festival in 2024 in Vietnam?

Based on the Organization Plan for the “Mid-autumn Festival in 2024,” issued with Decision 2457/QD-BVHTTDL in 2024, the activities during the Mid-autumn Festival in 2024 include:

[1] Space decoration “Mid-autumn Festival through traditional toys”

- Traditional Mid-autumn toys are not only for entertainment but also an educational tool, nurturing the souls of the younger generation, silently and profoundly advising and wishing them well in their studies and success.

- A traditional Mid-autumn Festival space always brings many emotions because it is about memory, childhood, and origin.

- The “Mid-autumn Festival in 2024” creates an exhibition area with traditional Mid-autumn toys, including lanterns, lion dance heads, paper doctors, paper masks, carp lanterns, star lanterns, To He figurines, cotton swans, frog drums with bright colors.

* Implementing unit: Vietnam Center for Exhibition of Culture and Arts.

[2] Recreational and experiential activities

- Guidance, experience of traditional crafts, making toys, and handicrafts.

- Children will listen to stories about the history of craft villages, watch passionate craftsmen perform, and create lovely products themselves, such as molding ceramics, glazing ceramics, assembling ceramic paintings, handcrafting, printing folk paintings - coloring, making rubber sandals, pressing dried flowers, embroidering brocade, quilting, making traditional cakes...

Implementing unit: Vietnam Center for Exhibition of Culture and Arts cooperates with Mondelez Kinh Do Vietnam Joint Stock Company, Vietnam Craft Villages Excellence Center, Center for Foreign Affairs and International Relations, Phu Lang Firewood Ceramic Association, DChiaki Art Creativity Academy, Latoa Folk Painting, Pham Quang Xuan Rubber Sandals Business, Hoa Tien Beocade, La Muse Quilt, and traditional craft village artisans.

- Experience art

Circus - Variety Arts: Children practice performing with suitable circus arts such as riding a unicycle; balancing on a roller, ball, bamboo ladder; stilt walking, juggling, hula hoop; balloon art...

* Implementing unit: Vietnam Center for Exhibition of Culture and Arts cooperates with Vietnam Intermediate School of Circus and Variety Arts.

- Puppetry art: Artists perform and guide children through fun and unique dry and water puppet shows.

* Implementing unit: Vietnam Center for Exhibition of Culture and Arts cooperates with Vietnam Puppet Theater.

- Experiencing singing - dancing - music - fashion for children: helps children develop skills, awakens talents, creating a healthy playground after stressful classroom hours.

* Implementing unit: Anh Duong Arts and Gifted Development Center.

- Experience sports

+ Participate in finding out, experiencing, and playing chess - an intellectual sport.

+ Perform traditional martial arts, lion and dragon dances.

* Implementing unit: Vietnam Center for Exhibition of Culture and Arts cooperates with The Reed Chess, Huynh Long Son Martial Arts School, Thang Long Vinh Xuan Kung Fu School...

- Fire safety skills, experiencing being a firefighter

+ Participate in useful activities about fire prevention and fighting; guide skills to handle fire and explosion incidents; rescue and first aid skills for victims. These valuable lessons will help children calmly respond to fire and explosion incidents that may occur anytime, minimizing damage.

* Implementing unit: Vietnam Center for Exhibition of Culture and Arts.

- Exhibition and experience area “Books and Children's World”

+ Exhibition and introduction of good books, guiding children to love reading.

+ Free reading space.

* Implementing unit: San Ho Books and Media Joint Stock Company, Tri Viet Bookstore.

- Experience “Immerse in the World of Colors”

+ Where children can immerse themselves in the bright colors of the art world to personally draw where they want to go, conquer, and explore new things.

+ Experience art on dinosaur eggs; explore prehistoric footprints.

+ Street sketching.

+ Experience art “Colors I Love”.

+ Decorating wooden paintings, assembling wooden puzzles.

* Implementing unit: Dai Viet Light Sculpture Joint Stock Company, Anh Duong Arts and Gifted Development Center, and artists, craftsmen.

- Guidance and experience “Safe driving”

+ Propagate traffic safety knowledge for children; guide safe driving skills, practice on a simulated track.

+ Organize theme-based minigames.

* Implementing unit: Thanh Hai Co., Ltd. (HEAD Thanh Hai).

- Learning, thinking, creative, and assembly games

+ Making handicrafts; super memory challenges, minigames with prizes; logical thinking with smart educational toys; mini model assembly, solving Rubik's cubes...

* Implementing unit: CVI Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics Joint Stock Company, Vui The Kit, International Math and English System, Puzzlia Smart Toys System - Korea, Rubik Community, Nguyen Dung Model Shop.

- Children's playground

+ Children can play with outdoor mobility equipment, trains, planes, inflatable houses...

+ Organize traditional games: mandarin square capturing, flag snatching, shuttlecock kicking, blind man's bluff, stilt walking, bamboo dancing, sack racing, hopscotch... engaging children in activities that make them agile, skillful, and lively.

Implementing unit: Vietnam Center for Exhibition of Culture and Arts, Anh Duong Arts and Gifted Development Center.

Time for experiential guidance and interaction:

Morning: 8:30 AM - 11:00 AM, Afternoon: 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM, Evening: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM.