A joyful and festive atmosphere is spreading across Da Nang in recognition of the Mid-Autumn Festival which this year falls on today, 4 October.

Local residents and children are being treated to exciting performances by professional and amateur lion dance groups along local streets at night.  In addition, a wide range of Mid-autumn items, such as mooncakes, candies and lanterns, have been given to poor local children, and child patients at local hospitals.

Here are some photos, taken by our DA NANG Newspaper reporters, which depict the cheerful atmosphere of this festival.

Hundreds of children from Ngu Hanh Son District enjoying a lion dance performed by the district’s Youth Union members

A local resident presenting mooncakes to children who are living in the city's Care Centre for Street Children

A little girl’s cheerful face as enjoying a lion dance

Apart from enjoying a lion dance, children in the Van Village resettlement area in Hoa Hiep Nam Ward received Mid-autumn gifts from Lien Chieu District’s Youth Union

Kindergarten kids in Son Tra District’s Nai Hien Dong Ward playing with ‘Ong Dia’ (Earth God)

An ex-pat from Hai Chau District (centre) visiting and presenting a gift to a child with life-threatening disease at the city’s Maternity and Paediatrics Hospital

A child patient at the hospital touching the Earth God