Mid-Autumn Festival customs differ across Northern, Central, and Southern Vietnam, from northern rituals to lively Central festivals and Southern gift-giving.
Tet cakes differ across Vietnam's three regions: the North has banh chung and banh phu the, the Center has banh to and banh in, the South has banh tet.
The Hanoi Autumn Festival 2026 runs 16-18 October at Thong Nhat Park, with 9 spaces covering heritage, craft villages, cuisine and international exchange.
Two calendars can give different lunar dates for the same solar day because they use different legal time zones, such as Vietnam at UTC+7 and China at UTC+8.
The Thần Tài prayer in Vietnamese folk tradition: origins, meaning, offerings, how to worship, and the full prayer, the first of the month and the full moon.