Maybe only the Mid-Autumn Festival can turn adults into children, even if it is just a memory of the past.
Remember the Mid-Autumn Festival, remember the excitement of a week, just to wait for the outbreak of the night. It’s Shaobing (Baked cake in griddle), it’s cake, it’s lamp to meet you, it’s mask, it’s knocking on the door with the lion dance group one by one. This is a huge tray displayed by grandparents between cultural homes, filled with grapefruit fur dogs, candy, burns, and toys. As a small group that sees new faces every year, they greedily look at each other and prepare to launch a war.
Perhaps, besides Tet, only Mid-Autumn Festival makes people have so many feelings of longing and nostalgia for such a childhood. Only one thing is different, Tet tips about missing loved ones, about family, about the lampposts in each person’s life. Exhaling mid-autumn quickly brings back something that stands squarely between the boundaries of gentle joy and regret. A feeling of both fulfillment knowing that a beautiful part of childhood is still present, and a feeling of sadness reminding us that a whole childhood is far behind, girls and whether we can ever return again. …
Who says that there is only winter in Hanoi and summer is wrong? Hanoi may only downplay the spring of New Year’s Day, but the pleasant harvest season lasts from early September to mid-November.
Hanoi has now ended the long hot sunshine or walked in the street at noon in summer and saw the swamp. In the dark, it will be a little cold. It’s sunny in the morning, and it can still rain at noon, as if all the hot air was dumped on the ground. I don’t have to worry about cover as I did in mid-June and July, so I feel more excited.
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Many people love autumn simply because of the gentle, happy weather. People miss a few autumn snacks, persimmons, green rice. But in Hanoi in the fall, when Hang Ma Street begins to flicker with red lanterns, or the annoying clicking sounds of drums begin to increase, it is also the time when people look at each other and say: Another Mid-Autumn Festival. ..Perhaps, besides Tet, only Mid-Autumn Festival makes people have so many feelings of longing and nostalgia for such a childhood. The only difference is that Tet evokes nostalgia for union members, family, and milestones in each person’s life. Mid-Autumn Festival reminds of something that stands precariously between the line of gentle joy and regret. A feeling of both joy knowing that a beautiful part of childhood is still present, and a feeling of sadness reminding us that a whole childhood has receded, peacefully and can never come back again. |
Now Mid-Autumn Festival is no longer the day when we look forward to the full moon and put candy on the porch. This is no longer a festival with flashing traffic lights, eagerly waiting for the inspiring lion dance to enter the team. Christmas is as normal as any other day. Even on Mid-Autumn Festival, the boss will assign work and must work overtime. The deadline is still equal.
In the new decade, with amazing changes, everything is different now, and so is the Mid-Autumn Festival.
It seems that Mid-Autumn Festival is just a chance to post some mood photos on Facebook, relive the memories of two or three children, and invite some friends out for a drink to spend the day. Cake is no longer as precious as before. Today’s mooncakes are also very exquisite, with various variations, from shark fin abalone to gold-plated exquisite velvet lining design, used for “diplomatic” purposes, connecting relationships, rather than enjoying traditional rural cakes.
Maybe only the Mid-Autumn Festival can turn adults into children, even if it is just a memory of the past.
Remember the Mid-Autumn Festival, remember the excitement of a week, just to wait for the outbreak of the night. It’s Shaobing (Baked cake in griddle), it’s cake, it’s lamp to meet you, it’s mask, it’s knocking on the door with the lion dance group one by one. This is a huge tray displayed by grandparents between cultural homes, filled with grapefruit fur dogs, candy, burns, and toys. As a small group that sees new faces every year, they greedily look at each other and prepare to launch a war.
Perhaps, besides Tet, only Mid-Autumn Festival makes people have so many feelings of longing and nostalgia for such a childhood. Only one thing is different, Tet tips about missing loved ones, about family, about the lampposts in each person’s life. Exhaling mid-autumn quickly brings back something that stands squarely between the boundaries of gentle joy and regret. A feeling of both fulfillment knowing that a beautiful part of childhood is still present, and a feeling of sadness reminding us that a whole childhood is far behind, girls and whether we can ever return again. …
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Mid-Autumn Festival is an occasion for reunion, a warm and happy day that regularly occurs every year.
Even though many things have changed, the Mid-Autumn Festival of the past year and today is still the same, maybe it’s just that people have changed. Any union member belongs only to the family. Every Mid-Autumn Festival, cakes follow people’s hands to people’s hands, and people’s love to people’s love.Reunions are not just for adults. When talking about moon cakes, people remember the “reunion” nights of children. The me of my childhood counted every day until the night of breaking the party, so that I could gather at the ward committee yard to spot all the most destructive “talented men” in the small neighborhood.
Even more joyful was the moment when my mother lowered the cake from the altar and told me to bring it to the yard for my friends to eat together. Later, I also told my children the same. That the cake will be more delicious when you eat it with your friends, while eating while holding a star lantern and singing “Tung Dinh Dinh! Tung Tung Tung Dinh Dinh!…” The pieces of cake passed from hand to hand were surprisingly delicious on the moonlit night. The children sat together, excitedly watching the lion dance troupe, laughing until many moons later and still not having enough fun. And they will remember those pieces of cake, as a part of their childhood, next to the lantern, Ms. Hang, and uncle Cuoi.
