Hát Trống Quân were born and developed strongly on these occasions. Hát Trống Quân were used as a special song type for autumn festivals and enjoying the moonlight occasions, they were antiphonal (call-and-respose) songs where boys and girls gathered on full-moon nights to celebrate the moon. The songs were about friendships or courtships.

Boys and girls used this antiphonal form to test the intêligence of each other, to criticize or to mock each other. The rythm is very simple, there is only one tune in Hát Trống Quân.

One significant thing is that the tune in Hát Trống Quân is very strong because of the accompaniment of the trống đất (earth drum).
 
The festival song type Hát Trống Quân is also a type of dual love song. Traditionally, there were always two groups of singers: boys and girls sang romantic lyrics:

Up in the sky there's a blue cloud
On the ground there is a white cloud
All around there are yellow clouds.
Wish I could marry you
I will buy
Bat Trang bricks to build
or
A flock of white cranes flow up,
Boys and girls lets sing loudly,
Joyfully,
For the phoenix couple could join together like you join me.
A flock of white cranes flow up,
Boys and girls lets sing loudly,
For fun,
For inviting to this tray of betels,
Betels are here, arecas are here,
Who will eat them when affinity has not yet been declared?

Hát Trống Quân is generally made up of these parts:

1. Greetings
2. Opening the competition
3. Offering betels
4. Asking and answering questions
5. Compliments
I fixed these betels last night,
Asking you to eat without my parents permission,
These are not betes for sale,
No wormwood in them so why don't you eat?
I wrapped these fresh betels and arecas in a white cloth,
To put aside for my cute girl,
Please eat them to satisfy your and my feelings,
Eat them to free you and my affections.
Incidentally I meet you here,
Asking you to make me a pair of pants and a shirt,
In return I'll pay
On the day you get married,
A basket full of sticky rice well cooked,
A fat hog and a first-rate jar of wine,
A pair of mats,
A blanket to keep you warm and a pair of finely carved earrings,
To this I shall add a quan tám (unit of money) as a dowry,
And a quan năm (money) as a wedding gift plus a bunch of areca.
My family is rich,
I am the daughter of a rich family,
It sounds good that what my parents demanded for matrimonial deposit,
A hundred piles of pink silk,
A hundred pearls,
Twenty-eight stars in the sky,
A hundred pair of round boxes,
Silver-tobacco containers and bronze lime containers,
And they also asked for a four-horse-carriage,
For me to go to the bridegroom's house.

Hát Trống Quân, after becoming widely developed, extended its influence to cities and then around the country.