Origin, meaning and traditional customs of the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. 

On the eighth lunar month of the lunar year, the house is full of happy Mid-Autumn Festival in the mood of joy and joy. Let's find out the origin, meaning and beauty of traditional customs of this traditional holiday in Vietnamese culture.  

On the eighth lunar month, on the Mid-Autumn Festival, each family according to the preferences and habits that showcases and decorates the dishes that the Mid-Autumn Festival different. When the moonlight reaches the top of the hill is the time when people together to break through and enjoy the taste of Mid-Autumn Festival.

Mid-autumn Festival in the air joyful adults watching moonlight, children organize the procession, watching the lion dance and breeze singing the theme song Mid-Autumn

Mid-Autumn Moon Crescent is for the worship of the moon and earth, for the good life, the harvest and the union of the family. Mid-Autumn Festival in the atmosphere of joyful adults watching the moon, children organize the procession, watching the lion dances and breeze singing songs on the theme of Mid-Autumn and enjoy the fruit, Mid-Autumn Festival.

Children in the Mid-Autumn Festival are paper elephants such as elephants, horses, lions, lions, dragons, deer, fish, butterflies, mantis, , the land, the tat song ... In recent years, thanks to the economic development of children has more plastic toys, iron ...

Trapped in the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival of the ancient Vietnamese.

Mid-Autumn Festival 2018 is what day?

Mid-Autumn Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival is known to everyone is the Children's Day. This date is held on August 15th lunar year. Mid-autumn 2018 is the second day, 24/9/2018 calendar, the lunar calendar is still August 15th year Mau Tuat.

Source of Mid-Autumn Festival

The ancient story that King Duong Hoang (713-741 Tay) to roam Ngu Uyen garden on the night of the eighth lunar month, the moon is very round and bright.

The king is enjoying the beautiful scene to meet the Taoist La Cong Vien (another name is Diep Phap Thien). Being celebrated in public by the Lord Buddha, the king happily celebrates the fairy tale in space, the magical light with the dances of the magnificent fairies.

The king was immersed in the space enchanted but forgot the time so the Taoist must remind the young man to leave. Going to the royal palace, the King still lent the scene, so he wrote the song "Virtually Everyday" and every night of the Mid-Autumn Festival (this August 15th lunar year) and celebrate the party.

On that day, the king and Duong Qui Phi reward moonlight and grapes drink wine, with the dancers singing to celebrate the miraculous magic. Since then, the celebration of the lantern and the banquet on the full moon day of the Mid-Autumn Festival became the custom of Chinese folk.

In Vietnam, the Legend of Mid-Autumn Festival is associated with Hang and Cuoi. It is said that in the past there was a fairy girl named Chang Nga, beautiful and very loving child. She wants to be down to play with children but the world does not allow.

When the Jade Emperor organized the "Baking Moon Festival", Chang'e went to the world to learn how to make delicious cakes. Here, Chang Nga met Cuoi - expert guy lie. Encouraged for Hang Nga to leave all the ingredients to mix and then bake. But unexpectedly, when the pie cake fragrant, the children eat good compliment. Hang Nga returned to the moon and brought the cake to the contest.

But Cuoi did not want to leave Changsha, so she took her hand and the strange power dragged him and the banyan tree to the moon. Sitting on the banyan tree, Cuoi can see the children are playing, so homesick and just know to cry and sad.

On the full moon in August, people display the Mid-Autumn Festival with fruit, moon cake and organize the procession, dancing and unicorn dance together under the moonlight to remember Cuoi, Hang.

Chang's cake won the first prize and named "moon cake". She begged the Emperor to let her and Cuoi get down to play with the children on the full moon every August. From then on, the Jade Emperor named the full moon in August as the "Mid-Autumn Festival" - New Year's Lunar New Year.

Every year, on the full moon in August, people organize lanterns, lion dance under the moonlight to celebrate Cuoi, Hang, rabbit to the ground to celebrate.

When did the Mid-Autumn Festival come to Vietnam?

According to archaeologists, the Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam dates from ancient times, and is printed on the Ngoc Lu bronze drum. According to the pagoda Doi in 1121, from the Ly Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was officially organized in the Thang Long citadel with boat racing, water puppetry and lanterns. During the Le - Trinh dynasty, the Mid - Autumn Festival was extremely lavishly organized in the government of God, which "Tang Tang" was described.

Research on the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival, according to P. Girir (in Magiet Religion, Paris, 1912), has long since been recognized in Asia as Moon and Moon.

They perceive the Moon only once in a month (at the end of the moon). Then, from the light of her husband, she fulfilled the moon and gradually received the light - become the moon, full moon, and then go to a new cycle. Thus, the moon is negative, only for women and married life. On the full moon day of August, the most beautiful moon, the most splendid, so people celebrate the festival to celebrate the moon festival.

According to history, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been at least 2,000 years ago

According to the book "Thai Binh Universe": "Lac Viet people in the fall of August to open the association, boys and girls, love each other to get married." Thus, autumn is the season of marriage.

Vietnam is an agricultural country so people in August planting is finished, the weather is calm, the time is "free things" (pagoda Doi 1121), people celebrate the festival, singing Tet collection.

According to history, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been at least 2,000 years ago. Since ancient times, kings have ordained the sun in the spring, the moon in autumn. According to the lunar calendar, August 15th is the middle of autumn, which is considered a "good day" for the sacrifice of the moon.

Meaning and customs in the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival

According to the Vietnamese custom, the parents give the children to celebrate the moon, buy and do all the candlelight candles to hang in the house and leave the procession. Many areas throughout the country also have the habit of doing daytime, evening to the moon.

In the full moon tray, there is no shortage of moon cake. Moon cake has become a cake only on the Mid-Autumn Festival can not be missing from every home and is considered a symbol for the reunion and harmony of the family.

In the past, the moon cake has two types, cake and plastic cake. The cake is usually salty, made of sausage and egg yolk. Sweet cakes made of green beans or red beans are cooked and pureed as flour.

Pastry moon cake is round shape, symbolizing solidarity and complete.

Initially, the moon cake has a circular shape, symbolizing the unity and complete, gradually, the cake is deformed into a square. Usually the moon cake will be cut to the right number of family members. The better the family, the happier the harmony.

In August, this is the occasion for the children to understand their parents' love for them in a concrete way. Therefore, family love becomes more and more attached. Also on this occasion, the house bought moon cake, tea, wine to worship ancestors, grandparents, parents, teachers, friends, relatives, and other benefactors, both grateful to pay homage , cherish.

Vietnamese special organization lion dance or lion dance in the Mid-Autumn Festival, unicorn in the Vietnamese culture is the animal symbolizes good luck. The lion dances usually consist of a person wearing a paper-tipped dragon and dancing the animal's gesture to the rhythm of the drum.

Vietnamese special organization lion dance or lion dance in the Mid-Autumn Festival, unicorn in the Vietnamese culture is the animal symbolizes good luck.

The unicorn has a long tail of colored fabric carried by a person in the rhythm of the unicorn. There are also la, color lights, colorful flags, people holding cones to protect the head ... Unicorns dance first, adults followed children.

In the past, Vietnamese people also sang the drum song in the Mid-Autumn Festival, singing the Drum Horse in the rhythm of the "three, the barrel". According to the ancient customs, sons and daughters use the song of drum singing to sing in the full moon night, especially in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Boys and girls singing together to both fun and picky you hundred years. People use the poem to write poetry or green bowl to sing.

In the past, the Vietnamese people also organized the singing of the Drums during the Mid-Autumn Festival (photo: VOV).

New Year's Eve is the Tet holiday of adults to enjoy the beautiful nature, eat cake, and drink tea to watch the full moon in mid-Autumn. Gradually, the Mid-Autumn Festival becomes Tet, but adults also participate in it. They have the opportunity to play the procession, singing, breaking the boat by his parents and especially the opportunity to eat candy drop door without fear of being scolded.

Mid-Autumn Festival is a very meaningful custom. That is the meaning of caring, of filial piety, of gratitude, of friendship, of reunion, and of love. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.10/9/2018.