Mid-Autumn Festival in the memories of the first generation of 8X and 9X

Princess• DNUM_CAZAJZCABI 14:25

10 to 20 years ago, Mid-Autumn Festival was very simple. With only red and green cellophane star lanterns and small trays of candy, children could happily play all night long.

As Children's Day approaches, the early 8X and 9X generations cannot help but recall their innocent and happy childhoods, when everyone eagerly awaited the Mid-Autumn Festival. They remember the old days when every child asked their parents to buy them toys such as lanterns, star lanterns, clown masks... so that they could join the neighborhood kids in breaking the cake and watching the moon.

Bamboo-framed star lanterns, covered in green and red cellophane, with candles inside, were once a familiar favorite toy for many people as children. On the full moon festival, some had star lanterns, some had spinning lanterns bought by their mothers, some wore masks of various shapes such as Wukong, Bajie, etc. The whole neighborhood was bustling with the sound of lion dance drums. Many people's childhoods passed peacefully like that.

Mid-Autumn Festival is always the most anticipated holiday for children. Children in the countryside rarely have the opportunity to play with a variety of toys like their peers in the city, but their toys are no less interesting. Children explore by themselves, rolling around on the ground to make paper lanterns, lanterns from butter tubes...

The sound of laughter, the chirping of crickets, the scent of ripe rice lingering in the bright moonlit night... are the most beautiful memories of those who had a childhood in the Vietnamese countryside.

The little boys and girls who were once eager to collect tin cans and work hard to make can cars to play with on the full moon night of August are now grown up, nostalgically recalling their childhood in the atmosphere approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Mid-Autumn Festival today, children may not lack anything. But perhaps, they will not feel the rustic, simple atmosphere of the lantern processions and bustling feasts throughout the village decades ago.

Nowadays, are there any children still eagerly and diligently sitting on the ground making lanterns, tin cans, simple lanterns...?

Mid-Autumn Festival today may be different from the past, but the meaning of this day has not changed, it is still a reunion, family gathering, and a bustling festival for children.