The Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn festival is named “Tet Trung Thu” in Vietnamese.

Tet Trung Thu is formerly autumn festival, and then becomes tet trong
trang (moon looking festival) of children. On this day, the moon is the
brightest and roundest in the year, cool weather. The festival involves the
custom of trong trang, procession of lights (parading with lanterns shaped
as moon and stars), lion dance and eating pasties and fruits.

Mid-Autumn Festival

The Vietnamese version of the holiday recounts the legend of Cuoi,

whose wife accidentally urinated on a sacred banyan tree, taking him with
it to the Moon. Every year, on the mid-autumn festival, children light
lanterns and participate in a procession to show Cuoi the way to Earth.