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Hanoi Mid-Autumn Festival over a century ago through Frenchman’s lens
Sandy Verma | September 18, 2025 6:24 AM CST

In his book “Pho Phuong Ha Noi Xua” (Old Streets of Hanoi), Hoang Dao Thuy wrote: “From the first day of the eighth lunar month Hang Gai Street came alive. All mothers and children in Hanoi flocked there.

Every vendor on the street sold paper Mid-Autumn toys, including elephants, horses, toads, carps transforming into dragons, lion heads.”


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