What is the difference between the Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam and other countries around the world?

Another Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, what have you prepared? These days, on the streets and streets, we can easily see mooncake stalls, star lanterns and brilliant lanterns. It can be said that despite rapid changes in society, traditional cultural features will still be preserved in our human lives.

Although the Mid-Autumn Festival is only 1 day a year, and there are many countries in Asia celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival, each country will have different characteristics. Let's find out today!

Vietnam

Vietnam is one of the major Mid-Autumn Festival countries in Asia. Vietnamese people will celebrate Tet on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. This holiday in Vietnam is not only a reunion festival but also considered a children's day. Traditionally, parents will buy gifts and folk toys such as star lights, masks, drums, unicorns, etc. to give to their children and grandchildren to go out and carry lights on the moonlit night.

Vietnam focuses on the full moon festival. Five-fruit tray with 5 kinds of fruits, symbolizing the five elements. In addition, there will be traditional baked goods and cakes with many flavors symbolizing the earth and the sky.

Korea

In Korea, the Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated magnificently on the full moon day of August. This holiday is called Chuseok (meaning autumn night, the most beautiful moon night of the year). People will have a long holiday with 3 main holidays.

Koreans have a special cake for this occasion called Songpyeon. This cake is shaped like a crescent or half moon, not square or round like other countries. The cake is made from rice flour, green beans, sugar and pine needles. Colorful and beautiful cakes.

China

Mid-Autumn Festival in China is a big holiday, celebrated with grandeur. According to legend, the Chinese will often drink wine and watch the moon on this holiday, so it is also called the moon-watching festival. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, besides eating and chatting, the Chinese also have other customs such as sacrificing the moon, releasing lanterns, solving puzzles, lion dance...

The traditional dish on the Mid-Autumn Festival in China is a cake with a round shape symbolizing fullness and fullness. The Chinese moon cake is very similar to the Vietnamese one with a thin shell, lotus seed filling, green beans, salted eggs... In each region of China, this traditional cake will have variations depending on taste.

Japan

Mid-Autumn Festival in Japan is called Otsukimi, which means moon viewing ceremony. This is a holiday to honor the moon of autumn, the time when the moon is at its fullest according to the Japanese concept. Although no longer using the lunar calendar, Japan is still one of the countries to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival on the full moon day of August. During this holiday, the Japanese will watch the moon, enjoy traditional dishes and participate in festivals. fun game.

Traditional foods often used in Japan during this holiday are sweet potatoes, chestnuts, noodles such as soba, ramen and especially tsukimi dango. The tsukimi dango cake, representing the moon, is made from glutinous rice flour and sweet honey with a small round shape.

Thailand

Mid-Autumn Festival in Thailand is called the moon festival, held on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. Thai people attach importance to this holiday, so on the full moon night, everyone will gather around the altar of Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara and Bat Tien to pray.

The Thai offering tray will have peaches and moon cakes to wish Quan Am as well as the gods. The Thai moon cake is also shaped like a peach, symbolizing fullness and reunion according to their concept.

Cambodia

The Mid-Autumn Festival in Cambodia takes place later on October 15 every year. This ceremony is called Ok Om Pok, which takes place mainly in the evening. Cambodians also organize a contest to release wind lanterns on Mid-Autumn Festival to send prayers and beliefs to the Moon god.

On this occasion, in the morning, Cambodians will worship the moon with offerings of cassava soup, sugarcane juice, and flat rice. In the evening, we will offer flat rice, bananas, potatoes, sugar cane, cassava soup...

Laos

The Mid-Autumn Festival in Laos is called "moon blessing" (blessing moon festival). On this day, all Laotians, young and old, girls and boys, look at the moon and enjoy the moon. At sunset, boys and girls dance and sing all night.

The center of the festival is Pha That Luang, the most beautiful and sacred stupa of the country "Million Elephants". On festival days, the roads leading to Pha That Luang are lit by candles and the tower is brightly decorated, forming a magical and sacred space.

Besides the ceremony, there is also a festival that lasts up to a week, mainly fun and entertainment activities in many forms. At the same time, an International Exhibition was also held in Buon That Luong at this time.

It can be seen that each country will have a different way of celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival, but one thing in common is the celebration of reunions, enjoying the moon and eating cakes made from bountiful crops. So, no matter where we are, whatever we are doing, don't forget that Mid-Autumn Festival is a day of reunion, let's temporarily put aside our busy work to come back with our families to celebrate the full moon day of the year. !

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