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| Ambassador Bui Le Thai and other participants attending the festival. |
On the evening of October 4, at Thang Long Shopping Center (Budapest), the Vietnamese Association in Hungary organized the 2025 community Mid-Autumn Festival for teenagers, children, and the offspring of overseas Vietnamese living, studying, and working in Hungary.
The event was attended by Vietnamese Ambassador to Hungary Bui Le Thai, along with numerous embassy staff and their families, community members, Vietnamese associations, parents, and children.
In his speech at the program, Vietnamese Ambassador to Hungary Bui Le Thai emphasized the profound significance of the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is not only a festival for children but also a time for family reunions, sharing the joy of togetherness, helping the younger generation understand more about their cultural heritage, and preserving the beautiful values of Vietnamese culture even while living far from the homeland.
In the lively, warm, and joyful atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn night, Ambassador Bui Le Thai emotionally stated: “The moon tonight over Budapest is the same moon that our loved ones are gazing at back home. Each mooncake, each lantern is not only a taste of childhood but also a thread connecting us to our national roots.”
Ambassador Thai expressed his trust and hope in the younger generation, recalling President Ho Chi Minh’s teaching: “Whether Vietnam can become beautiful, whether the Vietnamese people can reach the glory to stand shoulder to shoulder with the great powers of the five continents, depends largely on the education of the children.” He also affirmed that the embassy always cares, encourages, and promptly motivates the children to study well, become dutiful children in their families, exemplary members of the community, and useful citizens for the country.
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| Ambassador Bui Le Thai speaking at the program. |
The program was vibrant with many unique performances such as lion dances, lantern parades, traditional feasts, children's performances, and the distribution of Mid-Autumn gifts to the children.
Besides the joy of celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival, the program was also an opportunity for the community to meet, interact, reminisce about their homeland traditions, and demonstrate the spirit of solidarity and cohesion within the Vietnamese community in Hungary.
This year's Mid-Autumn Festival program left a deep impression, not only bringing joy to the children but also awakening in every expatriate a sense of pride in their roots, love for their homeland, and the unity and cohesion of the Vietnamese community in Hungary.
Some images from the event
