#Mid-Autumn Festival Visiting the Market # Pan's Tao translation of the Miao story "The Man on the Moon" is a Vietnamese version of the Chang'e legend, the story says that the sisters in order to get the ancestral wooden box that will conjure up food and clothing, in accordance with their parents' orders to find their husbands: the parents want to give the wooden box to the son-in-law who has real skills and honesty and reliability, so they design to test the two sons-in-law, the eldest son-in-law is treacherous and sinister, killing the brother-in-law to seize the wooden box, but is bitten to death by the tiger. The sister saw that her brother-in-law was handsome and capable, and designed to alienate the little sister and husband, kill the sister, and take the brother-in-law. The Emperor of Heaven sympathized with the misfortune of the little sister and the couple, helped them reunite and return to the human world, hated the bad heart of the eldest sister, and punished her to cut down trees in the Moon Palace. In the middle of the month the banyan tree was cut down today and healed tomorrow, and she got angry, kicked the tree with her foot, and was bitten by the tree, until now she was still leaning against the banyan tree.
The most widely spread legend in Vietnam is that there is a beautiful fairy in the heavenly court named Jiao'e, who rules the Moon Palace. The Jade Emperor organized a contest to "make mooncakes" on August 15, and when She came to the mortal world to seek a way to make mooncakes, she met Uncle Yu. He is very good at cooking, often making cakes for the children of the village, and the children like him very much. She asks Uncle Yu to make a new cake together. They developed a new cake that the children loved to eat.
When it was time to return to the Heavenly Court, She would return to the Heavenly Court with new cakes to participate in the competition. But Uncle Yu was very nostalgic for Her Sister, holding her hand and not wanting her to leave, miraculously, there was a force that pulled Uncle Yu into the Moon Palace along with the big banyan tree at the head of the village. Uncle Yu, who came to the Moon Palace, was sullen because he missed his hometown and his children. The cakes made by The Jade Emperor won the jackpot for their uniqueness and were given the name "Mid-Autumn Mooncakes" by the Jade Emperor, so the Jade Emperor specially approved the reunion of the children on August 15 every year. Jiao'e is a big sister who likes children very much, and after her sister Ben Yue chengxian, she will still return to the mortal world at midnight every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival and put gifts next to the bedside of sensible children, which is simply the Vietnamese version of Santa Claus! The Mid-Autumn Festival also comes from this.
On this day, Vietnamese people gather together to eat mooncakes invented by Shu'e and Uncle Yu. Vietnamese mooncakes are divided into two types. One is a chinese-like baked mooncake, and the other is a soft mooncake made of white glutinous rice. In Vietnam, before the Mid-Autumn Festival, close to the first few months of the Mid-Autumn Festival, on both sides of the Vietnamese road or near the downtown, temporary shops selling mooncakes (Bánh Trung Thu) have appeared one after another, heralding the arrival of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and various merchants will launch a "mooncake war" between them. Shops selling mooncakes along the streets of large and small streets are draped in red and green, and various mooncakes are lined with shelves. This makes the festive atmosphere especially strong across Vietnam.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Vietnamese people and the Chinese, will give each other mooncakes to friends and relatives, Vietnamese mooncakes have different shapes and themes, some are traditional round, square, some mooncakes are carp, piglets, rabbits and other different shapes, and even special durian flavor mooncakes.
In addition to retaining their own traditional customs, the Chinese in Vietnam have also slowly integrated Vietnamese customs, in addition to the Mid-Autumn Festival will worship the moon, the night will eat tomatoes, peanuts, diamond horns, sugar cane, of course, the Mid-Autumn Festival or chinese traditional grapefruit, eat mooncakes to make tea and appreciate the moon.
