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

Princess• September 20, 2018 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 sweets, children could play happily all night long.

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

The bamboo-framed star lanterns, covered in green and red cellophane, with candles inside, were once a familiar favorite childhood toy for many people. 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 access to a variety of toys like their peers in the city, but their toys are no less interesting. Children explore and roll 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 just a few days ago eagerly went to collect tin cans and worked hard to make can cars to play with on the full moon night of August, are now grown up, nostalgically remembering 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, can cars, 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, a bustling night of children's festival.