Is it auspicious to pray the day before Ghost Festival in 2019? What is the origin of the Zhongyuan Festival?

Is it auspicious to pray the day before Ghost Festival in 2019? What is the origin of the Zhongyuan Festival?
Introduction: Generally speaking, you need to choose an auspicious day to pray for blessings. So is it auspicious to pray the day before Ghost Festival in 2019? What is the origin of the Zhongyuan Festival? Follow the editor to find out! In July, melons and fruits are fragrant, so we also call the seventh month of the lunar calendar the "Melon Month". Follow Mr. Shui Mo's website and let us learn more about the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2019!

Is it auspicious to pray the day before Ghost Festival in 2019?

2019 Chinese lunar calendar for the day before the Ghost Festival:
Lunar calendar: July 14, 2019 Gregorian calendar: August 14, 2019, Wednesday Leo
【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】
Pray for blessings, get married, receive wealth, open business, set up beds and stoves, break ground, start drilling, repair graves, bury, accept marriage proposals, recruit sons-in-law, offer sacrifices, seek heirs, terminate appointments, raise beams, plant crops, fast and offer sacrifices, seek medical treatment, seal holes, establish contracts, build embankments
[Today’s taboos in the almanac]
Building, breaking ground, opening warehouses, acupuncture, livestock, property, travel, migration, moving into homes, erecting pillars, building houses
From the above content, we can know that today’s opening of the market [i.e. business opening] is in line with the lunar calendar, so the day before the 2019 Ghost Festival is an auspicious day for business opening!

What is the origin of the Ghost Festival?

The Zhongyuan Festival is commonly known as the Ghost Festival, Giving to Orphans, and the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is called the Ullambana Festival in Buddhism. Along with New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival and Double Ninth Festival, it is China's traditional festival for ancestor worship, and is also a traditional cultural festival popular in countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. There is a custom of releasing river lanterns and burning paper ingots during the Ghost Festival.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the Shangyuan Festival, which is the Lantern Festival and has existed since ancient times; the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is called the Zhongyuan Festival, which is used to worship ancestors; the fifteenth day of the tenth lunar month is called the Xiayuan Festival, which is used to eat cold food and commemorate the wise.

The Ghost Festival falls on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, and on the 14th day of the seventh lunar month in some areas.
The Zhongyuan Festival originally fell in the beginning of autumn, when some crops had matured. People would worship their ancestors according to custom, offering sacrifices such as new rice to report the harvest to their ancestors.
Therefore, every Ghost Festival, every family worships their ancestors and performs offerings according to the rituals. On July 15th, people visit tombs and worship their ancestors.
Overseas Chinese will send small amounts of money during the four festivals: Qingming, Zhongyuan, Winter Solstice and New Year's Day. Otherwise, they will be regarded as disrespectful to their ancestors, unfilial to their elders, irresponsible to their wives and good-for-nothings.
Legend has it that on the day of the Ghost Festival, all ghosts will be released from the underworld, and people will generally hold activities to worship ghosts. Every family that has a new death must visit the new grave, and usually offer sacrifices to the wandering ghosts in the local area, making it one of the largest sacrificial festivals among the Chinese people.

There are four aspects to the meaning of burning incense:

1. To show sincere and respectful offerings to the Three Jewels, and to demonstrate and guide sentient beings.
2. It means transmitting information to the void Dharma Realm and gaining blessings from the Three Treasures in all directions.
3. It means burning oneself to spread fragrance to all directions, reminding Buddhist disciples to make selfless contributions.
4. It means that the Buddhists' precepts, concentration and true incense have been lit, which contains the silent vow to "diligently cultivate precepts, concentration and wisdom, and extinguish greed, noise and ignorance". The Buddha does not like the big and expensive incense in the world, but he likes the precepts, concentration, truth and incense of his disciples.
It is best to burn three incense sticks. This represents the three non-leakage studies of precepts, concentration and wisdom; it also represents the offerings to the permanent Three Jewels of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. This is the most complete and civilized way of burning incense and offering. It is not the number of incense sticks you burn that matters, but the sincerity of your heart. As the saying goes, "Burn three civilized incense sticks and offer a sincere heart." Generally, it is enough to light three incense sticks in front of the main hall.
After lighting the incense, they should be inserted in the middle of the incense burner. The first incense stick should be inserted in the middle, and you should silently recite in your heart: offering to the Buddha, awakening and not being confused; the second incense stick should be inserted on the right, and you should silently recite in your heart: offering to the Dharma, being righteous and not evil; the third incense stick should be inserted on the left, and you should silently recite in your heart: offering to the monks, being pure and not being tainted.

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