How to display the most beautiful and complete traditional Mid-Autumn Festival tray

In Vietnam, Mid-Autumn Festival is a very special holiday for children with many typical activities such as camping, carrying star lanterns, arranging trays of food, making pomelo dogs... We would like to introduce to readers the most beautiful and complete way to arrange a traditional Mid-Autumn Festival tray.

For many Asian countries such as China and Korea, Mid-Autumn Festival is a very important holiday with the meaning of family reunion. In Vietnam, besides this meaning, Mid-Autumn Festival is also an occasion for adults to pay special attention to children. Therefore, Mid-Autumn Festival has long been a holiday for children.

On this holiday, most families and groups organize camping, carry lanterns, display mid-autumn festival trays, break the feast, and give gifts to children.

Mid-Autumn Festival tray. Illustration photo

How to arrange traditional Mid-Autumn Festival tray

The way to display a traditional Mid-Autumn Festival tray is quite simple, usually including: lanterns, fruits, cakes.

While on other holidays, the tray of offerings is usually solemnly displayed, on the occasion of Mid-Autumn Festival, the tray of offerings tends to be more formal and creative. Depending on the skill of the person arranging the tray, the tray of offerings can be arranged large, small, high or low, with many different shapes.

However, a Mid-Autumn Festival tray must always be complete: moon cakes, 5 types of fruit, and lanterns.

Mid-Autumn Festival tray. Illustration photo.

1. Fruit

Depending on the region, each place will choose different types of fruit. However, usually there will be typical fruits of Vietnam this season such as bananas, grapefruit, persimmons, watermelons, custard apples, pomegranates, guavas... to have at least 5 types of fruit. The fruits are chosen to be harmonious in form, balanced in color, with green and ripe fruits symbolizing the balance of yin and yang.

You can arrange fruits on a tray, or you can create a tumbler shape from guava, orange, persimmon; a puppy shape from grapefruit... The fruit plate will be placed in the middle of the mid-autumn festival tray.

2. Moon Cake:

Traditional Vietnamese mooncakes include baked and soft cakes. The most traditional filling is mixed. However, today, the cakes have been transformed into many different shapes, with all kinds of fillings such as fruit, cream, milk, caramel, jelly...

In terms of form, traditional cakes are mainly square cakes, but today there are also pig cakes, fish cakes, moon cakes, sunken flower cakes, floating flower cakes...

Moon cakes are usually placed solemnly on both sides of the fruit plate (large cakes) or arranged around the fruit plate (small cakes or shaped cakes).

3. Traditional lamps

You can use small lanterns or small star lights on both sides of the tray to create a sparkling light for the Mid-Autumn Festival tray.

If you are camping outdoors, you can hang lanterns/star lanterns around to make the food and atmosphere more joyful and brilliant...

According to Infonet