Visual memories of Mid-Autumn decades ago in rare color photos

	Hanoi's famous toy street sparkles as Mid-Autumn Festival draws near
	Precious photos of Mid-Autumn Festival in Hanoi a century ago
	Ideal destinations to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival in Saigon

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Kids lined up, waiting for their turn to recieve bagful of candies. Giving children candies and cakes during Mid-Autumn festival has been kind of the norm in Vietnam for centuries, with the sweets considered the encouraging rewards for those obedient children. It's jokingly hailed the Vietnamese way of "Trick or Treat".

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Grown-ups preparing bags of sweets, ready to distribute to the kids.

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Star-shaped lanterns are among the most iconic symbols of the Mid-Autumn festival.

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Besides confectionery, those children with excellent academic perfomance were also rewarded with small presents, such as textbooks, pencils, etc.

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A little girl looked radiant as she was going to attend the Mid-Autumn parade with a lantern on hands.

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Three siblings were all dressed up, each with her own latern, ready to join the parade.

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A corner in Ha Noi Old Quarter's Hang Gai, Hoang Kiem District, in 1915. The streets were colored with stores selling different kinds of lanterns and kid toys.

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A fish-shaped lantern.

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Lanterns and toys lined neatly on the table at a store in Hang Gai, 1915.

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The laterns were creatively designed, which came im different sizes and shapes. Children could opt for a lantern in the shape of a fish, prawn, or crab, etc, to their likings.

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Iron miniature human figurines were "dressed up" in colorful color, which gave them a very eye-catching appearance.

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A hawker selling lanterns along Hanoi streets in Mid-Autumn 1992.

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Lanterns in Cho Lon, 1966.

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