Some essential words which might help you to express your knowledge about Mid-Autumn Festival during a conversation with foreigners

1. TỪ VỰNG VỀ TẾT TRUNG THU
Tết trung thu: Mid-Autumn Festival (Full-Moon Festival, Lantern Festival, Mooncake Festival)
Múa rồng: Dragon Dance
Múa sư tử/múa lân: Lion Dance
Chị Hằng: The Moon Lady
Mặt nạ: mask
Đèn lồng: lantern
Đèn ông sao: star lantern
Cây đa: the banyan tree
Thỏ ngọc: Jade Rabbit
Ngắm trăng, thưởng trăng: watch and admire the Moon
Chú cuội: The man in the moon/ The Moon Man
"Rước đèn ông sao" :celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with traditional 5-pointed star shaped
lantern
+ time:
- degend of Cuoi with banyan tree + story of Chang'e (truyền thuyết với cây đachú cuội và chị hằng
nga)
- held on the Fifteenth day of the eighth month/August in the lunar/Chinese calendar
- falls on 15th, 8 in the lunarcalendar
- the time is at the roundest and brightest moon in the year
+ activity:
- wear funny/cloun masks (mặt nạ chú hề, ngộ nghĩnh)
- perform/ parade lion dance around/all over streets, biểu diễn trên phố
- 5-point star shaped lanterns or star lantern: đèn ông sao
- eat Moon cake
- children ask for the host 's permission to perform -> the host give them lucky money to show their
gratitiude : xin phép chủ nhà biểu diễn -> được cho tiền tì xì để tỏ ơn
- appear some stands of selling moon cake: xuất hiện gian hàng bán bán TT
+ moon cake:
- most important and special food: món ăn quan trọng nhất
- including: meat, egg jolk, flavor, masheddried fruits, pumpkin's or lotus seed and peanut, thịt ,
lòng đỏ, trái khô nghiền, hạt sen và đậu phộng
- symbolize luck, happiness, health and wealth on this day: biểu tượng cho...
+ the meaning
- is a good example of cultural value
- maintain and develop the traditional value in the cozt, sacred atmosphere of family
- family unity of member or distant relative