Mid-Autumn Children’s Lantern Festival – Tết Trung Thu

The Vietnamese Children’s Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, Moon Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival, is a vastly celebrated holiday throughout East Asia on a day with the full moon. Tết Trung Thu, as it is known in Vietnam, was traditionally a time for families to gather and celebrate the end of the summer harvest by eating moon cakes, lighting lanterns and gazing at the moon and stars.

It is commonly referred to as the “Children’s Festival” because traditionally, Vietnamese people believe that children, being the most innocent, have the closest connection to the sacred, pure and natural beauty of the world.

VWAT Family Services annually celebrates this festival, which brings together children, parents and grandparents in singing, dancing, watching the Lion Dance, eating moon cake, playing games, decorating lanterns and taking part in the lantern parade.  Lanterns symbolize beacons that light people’s path to prosperity and good fortune.

Read more about 2023 event here.