What festival is on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month in 2019? How many days are there off for the Ghost Festival in 2019?

What festival is on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month in 2019? How many days are there off for the Ghost Festival in 2019?
Introduction: The Ghost Festival is also a very important traditional festival. So what festival is on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month in 2019? How many days will the Ghost Festival be on holiday in 2019? "Er Ya Shi Tian" says: "The seventh month is Xiang, and the eighth month is Zhuang." Therefore, the seventh month of the lunar calendar is also called "Xiang Yue". Come and follow Mr. Shui Mo's website to learn about every day of the seventh lunar month in 2019!

What festival is on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month in 2019?

The 15th day of the seventh lunar month in 2019 is the Ghost Festival!
The date of the 2019 Lunar Ghost Festival is:
Thursday, August 15, 2019 (July 15, Year of the Pig, 31 days away from the 2019 Chinese New Year)
The Zhongyuan Festival, also known as the ancestor worship festival on the 15th day of the seventh month, is also known as the Ghost Festival, the Zhaigu Festival, and the Earth Official Festival. The main festival customs include worshiping ancestors, releasing river lanterns, worshiping the dead, 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.

How many days will the Ghost Festival in 2019 last?

There will be no holiday for the Ghost Festival in 2019. The Ghost Festival is not a statutory holiday. At the same time, as can be seen from the above Ghost Festival time, the Ghost Festival in 2019 falls on Thursday, which is a working day, so there will be no holiday.
The Ghost Festival is the largest special festival in my country for people to remember and commemorate their deceased relatives and ancestors. On the day of the Ghost Festival and in the days before, there are many ceremonies to commemorate their deceased relatives and ancestors.

Analysis of the legend of the Ghost Festival:

Legend 1: The 14th day of the seventh lunar month is the Zhongyuan Festival, also known as the Ghost Festival or the Yulan Festival. It is a major festival to worship lonely ghosts. The Zhongyuan Festival originated from Taoism, and later Buddhism changed it to what is commonly known as the Ghost Festival. The meaning of Yulan Festival in Hindi is "hanging upside down", which refers to the fact that the mother of Mulian, one of the ten great disciples of Sakyamuni, suffered from the pain of hungry ghosts 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 in the ghost month, which is now called the Ghost Festival. Generally speaking, people in ancient times were reluctant to hold important events such as marriages in this month.
Legend 2: Regarding the origin of Ghost Festival, it is said that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, also known as "Lord Yama", had his mother go to the underworld after her death and was locked up in a cell and suffered all kinds of tortures of the eighteen levels of hell. Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was a filial son, and he could not bear to see his mother suffer, so on the fifteenth day of July, he gave in to his private feelings and asked the little ghost guarding the cell to secretly open the cell door to let his mother out. Unexpectedly, as soon as the cell door was opened, the little ghosts swarmed out and ran to the human world to harm the people, so there was a saying that "On the fifteenth day of July, ghosts run around". Those ghosts who ran back to their hometowns asked their families for money so that they could use it to live and celebrate festivals, hoping to be reborn as soon as possible. Later people designated this day as "Ghost Festival". On Ghost Festival, people burn paper money and place offerings to commemorate the souls of their deceased relatives.

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