How many days are left until the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020? What number is it? How to pray?
Although the date of Mid-Autumn Festival is fixed in the lunar calendar, the solar calendar is different every year. How many days are left until Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020? When is the Mid-Autumn Festival? The weather gradually gets cooler in the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the autumn breeze brings a refreshing coolness, and the sweet-scented osmanthus fills the air. Mr. Shui Mo website has carefully compiled detailed information about the eighth month of the lunar calendar in 2020 (9.17-10.16). If you need to know more, please follow Mr. Shui Mo website!How many days are left until the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020? When is the Mid-Autumn Festival?Thursday, October 1, 2020. There are 37 days left until the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020 on August 15th of the Gengzi Year (Year of the Rat)How to pray during the Mid-Autumn Festival?1. Moon worship <br /> The one we worship is not Chang'e, but Taiyin Yuanjun. Few people may know the taboo of Taiyin Yuanjun, but she once appeared in "Journey to the West", and the Jade Rabbit in trouble was Taiyin Yuanjun's subordinate.According to Taoist scriptures, the full name of Taiyin Yuanjun is "Taiyin Yuanjun, the Holy Queen of the Moon Palace Huanghua Suyao Yuanjing", or "Taiyin Emperor of the Moon Palace, Filial Piety and Ming King". Treat the Dongyin Jielin Palace. According to the Secret Sutra of the Five Stars of the Great Supreme Being, the True Lord of the Moon looks like a queen. He is the Emperor of the Moon and is in charge of numerous immortal officials and divine messengers. In addition to the moon, Taoism also believes that she is in charge of the four rivers, five lakes, four seas, twelve streams and other water systems. It can be seen that our ancestors knew the relationship between tides and the moon as early as in ancient times. In the Book of Rites, there is a record of “Autumn Evening Moon”, and this custom has continued among the people, forming today’s moon worship tradition. In the old days, moon worship was mainly for a good marriage, good looks, and marrying a good man, so the main people who worshipped the moon were women. Of course, there might be "homosexuals" who worshipped the moon together with men, so there has been a saying since ancient times that men do not worship the moon. As for how to worship the moon, I will not elaborate here. It is best for everyone to adapt to local customs! If this is not possible, prepare a square table, some offerings, red paper, red candles and incense, and then worship in the direction of the moon. 2. Thank the Community God <br /> The Community God is the God of Land, and there will be a good harvest around the Mid-Autumn Festival! Farmers have the custom of thanking the God of Land, but this does not mean that this custom can only bless farmers. The land is the god of a place, and it blesses the place with peace! Having a good relationship with the God of Land is like having a good relationship with the current manager! It is of great benefit in protecting your family's safety and resisting minor disasters. The method of offering sacrifices to the land god is also very simple. Everyone can just burn incense and pour wine for the land god, and the land god will respond! If there is a local land temple, you can go there. If not, you can also go to a garden or other place. Remember to clean up the remaining incense from the worship. 3. Auspicious words <br /> Everyone should remember that as long as it is a festival, everyone likes to hear auspicious words! It is also taboo in folk customs to say unlucky words at this time. What's more, the full moon falls in autumn and the weather is dry, which makes people a little irritable. If they drink some wine during the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion, it will be bad if conflicts arise! 4. Pray and enjoy the lanterns <br /> Enjoying lanterns was a common feature of night festivals in ancient times. After all, there were no lanterns in the past. There was also a tradition of enjoying and competing in lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Today, only some areas in the south retain this custom. We do not recommend that you forcibly restore this custom, nor do we recommend that you release Kongming lanterns in autumn! Especially for readers in the north, you must not release lanterns randomly in autumn. If you really want to release qualified Kongming lanterns, otherwise it is easy to set the mountains on fire! Lanterns have always been regarded as a symbol of auspiciousness in traditional culture! In Buddhism, there is a story about a poor girl offering a lamp to the Buddha and receiving immeasurable blessings. We in Taoism also pay attention to offering lamps. Although folk activities such as lantern festivals and lantern appreciation festivals are for offering sacrifices to gods, in ancient times they were more for providing for the general public, allowing them to have fun at night and benefit themselves at the same time! If you light a lamp and pray, and others feel happy because of your lamp, this happiness will be transformed into blessings and help you realize your wish. This is why even today, young people still release Kongming lanterns to make wishes, hoping that others will see their wishes. But safety comes first. It’s dry, so be careful of wildfires! 5. Reunion Blessings <br /> It would be best if you can be reunited during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but if you can’t be reunited, you can also send greetings over the phone! If there is a gap between family members, you might as well contact them at this time. One of the functions of traditional festivals is to eliminate gaps and bring people closer. But it is best to be sincere when you give your blessings! It’s not that you saw some blessings on the Internet and you thought they were good! So let’s send a group message. Blessings come from the heart and come out of the mouth. When you send a group message, you have no idea who is receiving it. If you really want to send a blessing, it is best to think about the blessing words yourself, and then bless the people you care about one by one. |
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