The meaning of Vietnamese traditional Mid-Autumn Festival.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH. The meaning of Mid-Autumn Festival is not only for children, but it is also an opportunity for us to express our filial piety, gratitude, friendship, family reunion... Mid-Autumn Festival, according to the lunar calendar, is the full moon day of August every year. This is the Children's Day, also known as the "Tet of the Moon". Children are very much looking forward to this New Year because they are often given toys by adults, usually star lights, masks, towing lights, water cannons, etc., and pies and cakes. On this New Year's Day, people organize a feast to look after the moon. When the moon is high, children will dance and sing while watching the moon break. In some places, people also organize lion dances and lion dances for children to have fun. In Vietnam, the Mid-Autumn Festival is described in the custom: "During the day to make offerings to the ancestors, in the evening to present a feast to enjoy the Moon. At the beginning of the feast is moon cake, and uses many kinds of fruit cakes, dyed colors. colorful blue, red, white, yellow. Street girls compete with each other ingenuity, peeling papaya into flowers and other flowers, making dough to make shrimp and fish are also beautiful." According to archaeologists, the Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam dates back to ancient times and was printed on the Ngoc Lu bronze drum. According to the Doi pagoda epitaph in 1121, from the Ly dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was officially held in Thang Long citadel with boat races, water puppet shows and lantern processions. During the Le - Trinh dynasties, the Mid-Autumn Festival was held extremely lavishly in the Lord's Palace. Researching on the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival, according to scholar P.Giran (in Magiet Religion, Paris, 1912), since ancient times, in East Asia, people have valued the Moon and the Sun as a couple. They believe that the Moon reunites with the Sun only once a month (at the end of the moon phase). Then, from her husband's light, the contented moon girl came out and gradually received sunlight - becoming a new moon, a full moon, and then going into a new cycle. Therefore, the moon is negative, only about women and married life. And on the full moon day of August, the moon is the most beautiful and the most splendid, so folk celebrate the festival to celebrate the Lunar New Year. According to the book "Thai Binh Hoan Vu Ky", "Lac Viet people hold festivals in the fall of August, boys and girls have a relationship, they like each other, they get married". Thus, Autumn is the season of marriage. Vietnam is an agricultural country, so when the planting is finished in August, the weather calms down, it is the time when "everything is at ease", people hold festivals to pray for the harvest, sing and enjoy the Mid-Autumn Festival. Meaning of Mid-Autumn Festival According to Vietnamese custom, on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, parents set up a feast for their children to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, buy and make all kinds of candle-lit lanterns to hang in the house and let the children process the lights. The Mid-Autumn Festival celebration includes moon cakes, sweets, sugar cane, grapefruit and other fruits. This is an opportunity for parents, depending on their family's economic ability, to express their love for their children in a concrete way. Therefore, the family love is even stronger. Also on this occasion, people buy moon cakes, tea, wine to worship ancestors, give to grandparents, parents, teachers, friends, relatives and other benefactors. The Chinese often organize dragon dances on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, while the Vietnamese do lion dances or lion dances. The Lion symbolizes luck, prosperity and is a good omen for all families... In the past, the Vietnamese also held the singing of the Quan Drum during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The dance of the military drums follows the triple beat of "thap, barrel, thum". In addition to the meaning of fun for children and adults, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also an opportunity for people to watch the moon predict crops and national destiny. If the autumn moon is yellow, that year will be the silkworm season, if the autumn moon is green or blue, there will be natural disasters, and if the autumn moon is bright orange, the country will prosper. Mid-Autumn Festival is the children's festival. Right from the beginning of the month, Tet has been prepared with colorful lights and shapes, with flexible cakes and baked goods that we call moon cakes, with children's toys of all shapes and sizes. Among the most significant of the old days was Mr. Dr. paper. Children welcome the New Year with folding lights, lanterns, star lights, baby lights... colorfully lit up, pulling each other to sing joyfully, walking together in the evening and out in the street. And when the full moon comes, there are lion dances with the sound of drums and shouts. On this occasion, to enjoy the moon, there are many fun activities. Adults have adult fun, children have children's fun. Mid-Autumn Festival in the North also has the custom of singing military drums. The male and female sides sang and replied to each other, while beating on a barbed wire or steel wire stretched on an empty barrel, popping out "banging" sounds as the rhythm for the song. Sentences of singing (singing in rhyme, at will) or singing quizzes are sometimes available, sometimes improvised. The confrontation in the drum singing sessions is very fun and sometimes difficult because of the difficult puzzles. Boys and girls use military drums to sing on full moon nights, especially on the full moon of August. Boys and girls sing and respond to each other both to have fun and to choose friends for hundreds of years. People use poems made in hexagon or hexagonal variations to sing. The custom of singing military drums, according to legend, dates back to the reign of King Lac Long Quan in the Hong Bang dynasty. The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival does not have this custom. On the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a custom of lion dance, also known as lion dance. The Chinese often organize lion dance during the Lunar New Year. Vietnamese people especially organize Lion dance or Lion dance during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Lion represents a good omen. The Chinese do not have these customs. People usually dance on two nights 14 and 15. The lion dance usually consists of a person wearing a paper lion's head and dancing the movements of this animal to the beat of the drum. The unicorn's head has a long tail made of colored cloth, which is waved by a person to the rhythm of the lion's dance. There are also la la, tarpaulin, colored lights, five-color flags, someone holding a stick to protect the lion's head... The lion dances go first, adults and children follow. In these days, in the houses, there is often a prize of money on the top for the unicorn to climb up to get. In addition to the meaning of fun for children and adults, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also an opportunity for people to watch the moon predict crops and national destiny. If the autumn moon is yellow, that year will be the silkworm season, if the autumn moon is green or blue, there will be natural disasters, and if the autumn moon is bright orange, the country will prosper.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).BUDDHIST DHARMA WHEEL GOLDEN MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH.ASTRALIA,SYDNEY.19/9/2021.