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A brilliant harvest moon is rising over the S-shaped country - Vietnam,
signaling a time for romance and family unity from the shores to the great peaks.
The 15th of the eighth lunar month marks the mid-autumn Festival, the day when relatives and friends often gather to sit up at night, savor delicious moon cakes with tea, play games & enjoy one another’s companionship.
The joyous Mid-Autumn Festival, the third and last festival for the living, was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, around the time of the autumn equinox. Many referred to it simply as the "Fifteenth of the Eighth Moon". In the Western calendar, the day of the festival usually occurred sometime between the second week of September and the second week ofOctober.
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