Hoi An Mid Autumn Festival

The name of the Mid Autumn Festival in Hoi An is a little misleading. Though the name of the festival is “Mid Autumn Festival”, the festival occurs at the beginning of the season of autumn or fall. The Mid Autumn Festival in Hoi An is better known as the ‘children’s festival’ as it is a riotous and frolicking affair filled with fun and games. Though the main participants of the Mid Autumn Festival in Hoi An are children, adults also join in enthusiastically.

The Mid Autumn Festival in Hoi An is actually a moon festival. It is an annual festival unlike the monthly moon-festival of “Hoi An Full Moon Night” that is held on the 14th day of every month. The Middle Autumn Festival in Hoi An on the other hand is an annual affair falling in the lunar August or the eighth month of the lunar calendar. The festival is celebrated for two days: on the 14th and the 15th of this month.

The Mid Autumn Festival in Hoi An is a gesture of gratitude to the Moon. The festival is celebrated to thank the moon for its year round services. The occasion is commemorated by baking and exchanging moon-cakes. There is more to the festival than just the prayers and cakes. The Mid Autumn Festival in Hoi An involves a procession of children beating drums and gongs as they parade through the street in the night with lanterns shaped mostly like the moon or stars and sometimes like animals as well. An attractive feature of the Mid Autumn Festival in Hoi An are the ‘Lion Dance’ and the ‘unicorn Dance’ that are preformed by children.

Vietnam-Japan Cultural – Hoi An – 2010

The 2010 Vietnam-Japan Cultural Exchange Days will be held in Hoi An from August 21-23. The opening ceremony will be organized at An Hoi Sculpture Garden on August 21.

This annual event will feature a series of cultural and sporting exchange activities including a performance of Koto (a Japanese traditional musical instrument); a tea ceremony; calligraphy; Japanese traditional clothing (Kimono and Yukata) and Japanese cooking classes.

Other unique cultural activities will be organized, such as traditional dance and musical instruments shows, a dragon dance, a floating lantern festival, a street exhibition of photographs about festivals, culinary activities together with many other sports exchange events including cross-river boat race, stick-pushing, etc.

Several famous Japanese art troupes, including Iwami Kagura royal dance troupe, Daisuwa Taiko drum troupe and Sakai City’s lion dance troupe, will join the event. Read more

Fireworks competition to light up Danang

Five firework teams from the US, Japan, Portugal, France and Vietnam will compete in the third Danang International Fireworks Competition to be held March 27-28.

The competition, which attracted 60,000 people to the seaside tourist destination last year, is themed “Legend of the Han River” this year.

It has also been chosen as one of the events to mark the 1000th anniversary of Hanoi this year. Read more

Join fireworks display in Danang

Many Vietnamese and foreign tourists are eager to see the 2010 Danang International Fireworks Competition which will take place on March 27 and 28. The event this year under the theme Legend of the Han River will welcome five teams from the U.S., Japan, France, Portugal and Danang.

With each show lasting about 20 minutes, spectators will have a chance to admire the talents of team Pyrotecnico from New Castle Town, Pennsylvania, known as the fireworks capital of the U.S., Luso Pirotecnia Group from Portugal, Jacques Couturier Organization from France and the famous fireworks company Tamaya Kitahara from Japan. This year’s event will be more animated and more imposing than last time as it is also aimed to mark the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi and 35 years of liberation for Danang City. Read more

Hoi An will celebrate New Year with fireworks

In this new year of the Tiger (Canh Dần Year), the Hoi An government will celebrate the Tets Festival with so many activities, including fireworks festival (begining at the midnight of the end day of year at three places in the city) and a kiss festival with over 1000 lovers at Hoai River Square. hoianfestival.com will updated information as soon as possible.

To have more infomation about Hoi An Tets Festival: Download file Hoi An Old Town – Tiger Tets Festivel – PDF Version – Vietnamese hoặc Hoi An Old Town – Tiger Tets Festivel – JPG Version – Vietnamese

Hoi An Lantern Festival 2010

Authorities in Hoi An will host a lantern festival to celebrate the Lunar New Year, decorating the city’s ancient tower and honoring the local handicraft of lantern making.

The festival will open in the 30th evening of the twelfth lunar month in 2009, which falls on February 13, 2010. The city will be bathed in the colorful, sparkling lantern lights arranged in traditional and modern shapes of fruits, Vị trí đặt quảng cáodragons, a phoenix, turtles, buffalo and other symbols of stars, moon, bridges and ancient buildings representing the architecture of the ancient town. Read more