What is the Ghost Festival? Are there ghosts involved? What time do the gates of hell open during the Ghost Festival?
The Zhongyuan Festival is also known as the Ghost Festival, so whether there are really ghosts during the Zhongyuan Festival has attracted much attention. So, let’s take a look at what Zhongyuan Festival is, are there ghosts, and what time do the gates of hell open during the Zhongyuan Festival? The seventh month of the lunar calendar is called the Qiqiao Festival, a festival in ancient times when women would "beg for skills" from the Weaver Girl, hence the name "Qiao Yue". Want to know whether the seventh lunar month of 2021 is a good day? Welcome to Shuimoxiansheng.com's special feature on the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2021.What is the Zhongyuan Festival and are there ghosts?What is the Zhongyuan Festival?The Zhongyuan Festival is the Ghost Festival and also the Yulan Festival. Zhongyuan Festival is the Taoist name, and is commonly known as the 15th, 14th, and 15th of the seventh month or the Ancestor Worship Festival. The Zhongyuan Festival is also known as the Yulan Festival in Buddhism. The main customs of the Ghost Festival include worshiping ancestors, releasing river lanterns, worshiping the dead, burning paper ingots, and worshiping the land. Are there ghosts during the Ghost Festival? According to traditional customs, ghosts do exist during the Ghost Festival, and the King of Hell will give all ghosts a holiday on this day. The gates of hell will be wide open, and all ghosts will come out in droves to spend their holidays on the human world. Therefore, there is a taboo against going out at night on this day of the Ghost Festival. From a scientific point of view, there are no ghosts on the Ghost Festival. The belief in ghosts and gods is just a folk superstition and does not exist. As for whether there are ghosts during the Ghost Festival, there is actually no accurate answer. The belief in ghosts and gods has always been a matter of belief. What time do the gates of hell open during the Ghost Festival?According to tradition, the Ghost Gate opens on the first day of the seventh lunar month. However, the actual opening time is the night of the 14th day of the seventh lunar month (23:59), which is the early morning of the 15th day of the seventh lunar month (00:00).People believe that the first day of July is the day when the "Gate of Hell" opens. From the first day of July when the Gate of Hell opens to the 30th day when it closes, when the ghosts in the underworld return to the world to reunite with their relatives, there are also many homeless ghosts. The homeless souls in the underworld will flock to the world and wander in any accessible place looking for food. So we need to give them a certain amount of paper money to avoid too much resentment. However, the Ghost Gate only opens wide on July 14, and continues to open until July 15, and then slowly closes until July 30. |
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