Mid-autumn festival song from Vietnam

This weekend is the mid-autumn festival. Everyones eating mooncakes and lanterns are all around.
lanterns for the mid autumn festival

In Vietnam, the mid-autumn festival is also celebrated as a children’s festival.

You can listen to them singing a lantern song, click on the link below.

Lantern Song from Vietnam

Do you want to sing with them?

The lyrics to the song:

Tet trung thu ruoc den di choi.
Em ruoc den di khap pho phuong.
Long vui suong voi den trong tay
Em mua ca trong anh trang ram.
Den ong sao voi den ca chep
den thien nga voi den buom buom
em ruoc den nay den cung trang.
Den xanh lo voi den tim tim.
Den xanh lam voi den trang trang
Trong anh den ruc ro muon mau.

In English

At Mid-autumn festival,
walk around with lanterns lit.
Take them all across the town,
singing to the autumn moon.
Lanterns all in different shapes, lantern angel, lantern dream,
Lantern fish, or lantern star, lantern swan or butterfly.
Take my lantern to the sky;
take my lantern to the moon!

Source: Tet Trung Thu and Mooncake Madness By Linh Song

Wikipedia: Mooncake Festival

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9 Comments

DanSeptember 16th, 2005 at 7:02 am

Preetam, I like the lanterns. They are so cute!! Can I have one?:)

preetamraiSeptember 16th, 2005 at 5:09 pm

lets mail the lantern to our dan.

KevinSeptember 16th, 2005 at 11:28 pm

Hey Preetam, it’s heartwarming to hear the actual mid-autumn festival song on your blog. Keep it up! :)

preetamraiSeptember 18th, 2005 at 12:15 pm

Thanks Kevin, I was playing it at my office mooncake function was trying to get people to singalong.

TueApril 3rd, 2006 at 7:47 pm

ownage…gud to see some viet pride. keep it up

chauJune 13th, 2006 at 9:32 am

the last 3 lines were not interpreted.
this is the my interpretation of it.

“Den xanh lo voi den tim tim.
Den xanh lam voi den trang trang
Trong anh den ruc ro muon mau.”

light blue lights and violet lights (lanterns)
dark blue lights and white white ones
Under the (moon)light its colourful.

Chau

TieuMiSeptember 26th, 2007 at 12:48 pm

I really need to know
the whole song quickly
can someone send me the
lyrics of the vietnamese
version

little_emMay 28th, 2009 at 9:26 am

hi, does anyone know where i can get lanterns like this on the internet? thanks very much! little_em

ThaoSeptember 21st, 2009 at 12:10 am

I've got a great translation of that song, not quite accurate but I like its English rhythm. Thanks for the post, it reminds me of my childhood with my first lantern.

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