Mid-Autumn Festival - Lantern procession

Mid-Autumn Festival (also known as Reunion Festival) is the day when families gather together to eat moon cakes, candy trays, enjoy tea, and play with star lanterns, which has become a meaningful cultural feature. Let's learn about Mid-Autumn Festival with Mailey!

When does Mid-Autumn Festival take place?

Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the full moon day of the eighth lunar month every year. And in 2023, Mid-Autumn Festival will fall on Friday, September 29, 2023 of the solar calendar. On this day, under the bright moonlight, families gather together and have fun together. Parents organize a display of candy for the children, make lanterns, and light up brilliant starlights.

Meaning and characteristics of Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival not only has cultural significance but also a profound spiritual meaning. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, families often prepare food and burn incense on the ancestral altar to both show gratitude to their ancestors and pray for peace and luck for their loved ones. Moreover, Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the "Second Children's Day" for Vietnamese children. Children will be able to prepare a tray of sweets with their parents, process star lanterns, watch lion dances, and participate in folk games for children.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, we will be signaled by the sounds of Mua Lan drums resounding throughout the streets. Children excitedly held bright star lanterns in their hands, following the lion dance troupe, blending in with the bustling atmosphere. Families prepare trays of Mid-Autumn Festival sweets, family members sit together, laugh happily over a cup of tea and mooncakes, fruits, and all kinds of candies for children. Giving cakes to relatives is also a typical feature of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Below, Mailey would like to suggest some dishes that mothers can prepare for their family's Mid-Autumn Festival candy tray!

Moon cake

Pies and cakes can be called the "soul" of the full moon night of August. The typical cake is round and square, symbolizing the moon and sun, with elaborate patterns, meaning happiness and prosperity. The layer of baked cake is golden and delicious, while the cake is white and soft, great to enjoy with romantic tea.

Nutritional brown rice cereal bars

If your family is not a fan of cakes, Mailey Nutritional Brown Rice Bars are a great choice for the full moon night of August. Combined from nutritious cereals and red rice. crispy dried dragon fruit, creating a delicious, crunchy, fatty, salty, sweet, and savory brown rice bar. Suitable for children, the elderly, dieters and vegetarians. There are 2 flavors for you to choose and change: Mailey Brown Rice, Cereals and Pork Bar and Mailey Brown Rice, Cereals and Seaweed Bar.

Seaweed strips with nutritional nuts

Seaweed strips with nutritional nuts is a wonderful combination of a crispy seaweed crust, strips inside is a fatty, nutty filling of brown rice nuggets and nutritious nuts, blended with a rich flavor of the sauce layer brings a delicious dish full of nutritional value. Each bar is individually packaged for convenience, easy to display and retains the crispness of the seaweed. There's nothing better than a piece of seaweed strips with nutitinoals nuts over a cup of hot tea with your loved ones.

Seaweed burned with garlic

Mailey's seaweed burned with garlic is a combination of the natural salty flavor of seaweed along with the aroma of burnt garlic and roasted sesame that will be the dish that most attracts your children. It's great that children can enjoy these healthy snacks instead of their favorite chemical candy snack packs, isn't it?

Hopefully Mailey's sharing about the above cakes will help mothers feel more relaxed and secure when preparing a tray of candy for their families and children this Mid-Autumn Festival!