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China will be the partner country this year in the annual celebrations to mark the Mid-Autumn Festival to be held in Hanoi this month.
The Vietnam – China Mid-Autumn Festival, to be held from September 17 to 20, will feature some spectacular shows like the dance-drama Journey to the West by Chinese artists and boi singing, lion and dragon dances, and water puppetry by Vietnamese artists.
The Journey to the West, the event’s highlight, is one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature.
Boi, a kind of Vietnamese traditional music, will be performed by Vietnamese Southerners, and other shows like lion-dragon dances by local artistic dancing teams and water puppet by Hanoi-based Chang Son puppetry.
There will be several Vietnamese and Chinese traditional games in which visitors can take part. They can also enjoy Chinese tea and try their hand at baking traditional cakes from the two countries and making lanterns, kites, and masks.
The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, the Museum of Yunnan ethics and Yunnan Opera Institute from China, and the Chinese embassy in Hanoi will organize this year’s festival.
Last year Japan partnered in the festival, and in 2007 it was Korea.
Tickets, available at the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Nguyen Van Huyen Street, cost VND25,000 (US$1.3) for adults, VND 3,000 for children, and VND5,000 for students.
