Which lunar month is the Ghost Festival? What are the customs of the Ghost Festival?
The Zhongyuan Festival is a traditional festival for ancestor worship and is also an important festival. In folk culture, people also call the Zhongyuan Festival the Ghost Festival. So, which month and day of the lunar calendar is the Zhongyuan Festival? What are the customs of the Ghost Festival? Let’s take a look at the following content!Which lunar month is the Ghost Festival?Sunday, August 22, 2021 (July 15, Xinchou Year (Year of the Ox), 201 days until the 2021 Chinese New Year)Origin of the Ghost Festival Seven is the number of resurrection and also a changing number, so the ancients chose July 14 (July 15) to worship their ancestors. The origin of the Zhongyuan Festival can be traced back to ancient ancestor worship and agricultural harvest festivals. In the early days, it was mainly used to express the joy of the harvest. Autumn is the harvest season. In ancient times, people often relied on the blessings of gods for a good harvest, because the level of social productivity was extremely low at that time. People held ceremonies to offer sacrifices to the spirits of their ancestors, offering seasonal delicacies to the gods first, then tasting the fruits of their own labor and praying for a good harvest in the coming year, expressing the ancient working people's yearning for a beautiful future life. Why is the Zhongyuan Festival called the Ghost Festival?During the Ghost Festival, the gates of hell open wide and hundreds of ghosts roam the world at night. At this time, people generally hold activities to worship ghosts. Families that have recently lost a loved one must visit the new grave, and generally offer sacrifices to lonely ghosts in the local area. It is said that if one stays in the wilderness on this night, one will see the strange spectacle of hundreds of ghosts parading at night, hence the name Ghost Festival.Ghost Festival is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival. Together with Qingming Festival and Cold Clothes Festival, it is known as one of the three major ghost festivals in China. Among them, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the largest sacrificial festival and also the largest ghost festival. The entire festival is centered around worshiping ghosts. On this day, every family worships their ancestors, and some even hold family banquets, performing rituals when offering sacrifices. Three rounds of pouring wine indicate that the ancestral feast is over and the family will sit together again to have a festive dinner. After dark, take firecrackers, paper money, incense and candles, find a secluded flat area by a river or pond, and sprinkle a circle with lime to indicate a restricted area. Then pour some rice and water in the circle, burn some paper money, set off firecrackers, and respectfully send the ancestors off to the "underworld". Can I go back to my parents’ home during the Ghost Festival?You can't go back to your parents' home. The Ghost Festival is the Ghost Festival, when all the ghosts come out, so you can't go home. According to custom, a daughter goes back to her parents' home on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month to worship her parents. If both parents are still alive, she shouldn't go home, not even on the 14th day of the seventh lunar month. She can go home on the 16th day of the seventh lunar month because people believe that the 15th day of the seventh lunar month is the Ghost Festival, so it's unlucky to go back to your parents' home. People are also not allowed to visit anyone casually.Ghost Festival The Ghost Festival, a traditional Chinese festival, is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Fourteenth Day of the Seventh Month, the Ancestor Worship Festival, the Ullambana Festival, and the Earth God Festival. The main festival customs include worshiping ancestors, releasing river lanterns, worshiping the dead, burning paper ingots, and worshiping the land. "Zhongyuan Festival" is the name given by Taoism, and it is commonly known as "the 15th day of the seventh month" (or "the 14th day of the seventh month") in the folk society. Its origin can be traced back to the ancestor worship and related sacrifices in ancient times. The festival is related to the ancient culture's theory of the cycle of yin and yang. In the Book of Changes, "seven" is a changing number and the number of resurrection. July is an auspicious month and a month for filial piety. The Mid-July Festival is a folk festival in early autumn to celebrate the harvest and to thank the earth. When some crops mature, people will worship their ancestors and offer new rice as sacrifices to report the autumn harvest to their ancestors. This festival is a traditional cultural festival to commemorate ancestors, and its cultural core is respecting ancestors and being filial. |
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