How many days are left until the 2019 Ghost Festival? What are the customs of the temples during the Ghost Festival?
Introduction: The Ghost Festival is an important festival, and there are many customs for it. So how many days are left until the 2019 Ghost Festival? What are the customs of the temples during the Ghost Festival? Follow the editor to find out! The seventh month of the lunar calendar is commonly known as the Ghost Month. Come to Shuimoxiansheng.com’s special feature on the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2019 to learn about the auspiciousness and inauspiciousness of the day!How many days are left until the 2019 Ghost Festival?The date of the 2019 Lunar Ghost Festival is Thursday, August 15, 2019 (the 15th day of the seventh month in the Year of the Pig, 26 days away from the 2019 Lunar Ghost Festival ). The Ghost Festival, also known as the Mid-July Ancestor Worship Festival, is also known as the Ghost Festival, the Fasting for the Orphans, and the Earth Official Festival. The main festival customs include worshiping ancestors, releasing river lanterns, worshiping dead souls, and burning paper ingots. The Zhongyuan Festival evolved from the "mid-July" harvest festival in ancient times when people would offer sacrifices to their ancestors. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival for people to celebrate the harvest and thank the earth in early autumn. When some crops mature, people will worship their ancestors and offer new rice as sacrifices to report the autumn harvest to their ancestors. It is a traditional cultural festival that commemorates ancestors, and its cultural core is respecting ancestors and being filial.What are the customs of temples during the Ghost Festival?Temple customs during the Ghost Festival include purifying the altar and circumambulating the temple, that is, reciting the Ullambana Sutra . The abbot will first preside over the ceremony of circumambulating the altar, reciting the sutra, and sprinkling the water for purification, and the public will follow suit and recite the Ullambana Sutra three times. Then, the public will kneel down according to the positions they took during the morning and evening recitations, and follow the abbot's words of blessing, wishing that all enemies and relatives will be liberated. After the words of blessing are finished, the public will stand up, listen to the Vinaya chanting the Buddha's name, and kneel down to the sound of the chimes. After the kneeling is completed, the group disperses. Temple customs during the Ghost Festival: monks return to the altar with orchid basins for offerings and after three prostrations to the Buddha, the abbot lights up incense, the Vinaya chants the "Offering Praise", and everyone sings along. Then, the scriptures are recited again and again, and the purpose of the offering is explained to express one's own feelings, accompanied by kneeling and worshiping the Buddha from time to time. Temple customs during the Ghost Festival: Reciting a dedication speech and ending the ceremony with an orchid basin offering. The last ceremony is that after all the monks have received food offerings, Yuezhong collects the donations from the donors (believers) and distributes them equally to all, whether they are guests or monks of the temple. After receiving the distribution, they recited a prayer together and then each took the bowl back to the dormitory. The entire Ullambana ceremony is over.Where did the Ghost Festival originate?The Zhongyuan Festival originated from Taoism, and was later changed to the Ghost Festival commonly known as Buddhism. The meaning of Yulan Festival in Hindi is "hanging upside down". "Hanging upside down" refers to the mother of Maudgalyayana, one of the ten great disciples of Sakyamuni, who suffered as a hungry ghost after her death and could not eat. Later he received help from Sakyamuni. Offer hundreds of flavors and five kinds of fruits to the gods and Buddhas of the ten directions and use the merits to save your mother. Therefore, in order to commemorate the lonely souls, a general festival is held in the seventh month of the lunar calendar, which is now called the Ghost Festival. The Zhongyuan Festival originated from the story of Mulian saving his mother. The legend goes like this: "There was a monk named Mulian who had great magical powers. His mother fell into the realm of hungry ghosts. As soon as food entered her mouth, it turned into flames. She was suffering from extreme hunger. Mulian was unable to save his mother, so he sought help from the Buddha, who told him the Ullambana Sutra and taught him to prepare a Ullambana on the fifteenth day of the seventh month to save his mother." It is said that after Mulian had experienced untold hardships in the underworld, he saw his dead mother, Liu, and discovered that she was being tortured by a group of hungry ghosts. Mulian wanted to use a bowl to serve her vegetables and rice, but the rice was snatched away by the hungry ghosts. Mulian had no choice but to ask the Buddha for help. The Buddha was moved by Mulian’s filial piety and gave him the Ullambana Sutra. Following the instructions, Mulian offered precious fruits and vegetarian food to his mother in a Yulan basin on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. The starving mother finally got food. In order to commemorate Mulian’s filial piety, Buddhists hold a grand "Yulanpen Festival" every year, which is what we now call the "Ghost Festival". 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