Mid-Autumn Festival

 

We took the time in my morning and afternoon classes to create these fabulous lanterns that we decorated the great hall with.

 

Tết Trung Thu also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Vietnamese people. This celebration usually falls during late September or early October when there is a full moon. The traditions surrounding this holiday date back thousands of years, and they place a huge emphasis on children. It is thought that the festival was originally celebrated to give parents time to catch up with their children after the summer harvest was completed. People also believed that children were innocent and pure, and thus were the closest connection to the sacred and natural world.

The school will be selling lanterns similar to these one. $3 for a lantern, fruit snack, and one admission ticket for children!