Mid-Autumn Festival

INTRODUCTION

Vietnam and China have a long history of interrelation. Among many Vietnamese and Chinese intellectual people had been established close friendship. Both countries became great source of inspiration for many writers and poets to create their works. To study Vietnamese and Chinese literary and cultural interrelationship might help to improve the understanding and friendship between two nations.

In order to understand the various forms of communication in Vietnam it is first necessary to know something of the socioeconomic structure, the cultural diversity and the historical antecedents of the country. Vietnam is a socially diverse country with the major cleavages falling between those in rural and urban areas, men and women, older and younger generations, and the dominant ethnic group and the ethnic minority groups. As such, comments about Vietnamese modes of communication will be overgeneralised but, I trust, not stereotypical.

The country has a history of conflict over its nationhood. For about the first 1,000 years of this era, the Chinese occupied Vietnam. When they were finally ousted in the 900s, Vietnam became a vassal state of China in which it paid tribute to the Chinese Emperor. Chinese influence on Vietnamese culture has been very strong, bringing Confucian ideology, culture and education forms.

We'll find out about the Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam and China

Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival (traditional Chinese: 中秋節; simplified Chinese: 中秋节; pinyin: zhōngqiū jié; Vietnamese: Tết Trung Thu) is a popularharvest festival celebrated by Chinese and Vietnamese people. The festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, during a full moon, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar, close to the autumnal equinox. The Government of the People's Republic of China listed the festival as an "intangible cultural heritage" in 2006, and it was made a Chinese public holiday in...