Who is the Zhongyuan Festival, one of the three Yuan festivals, commemorating and what is the story behind it?
Every festival has different meanings, either to commemorate events or to commemorate people. The same is true for the Ghost Festival, which was originally formed to commemorate people. So, who does the Ghost Festival commemorate? The seventh month of the lunar calendar is approaching, and life is gradually entering a new mode. If you want to know more exciting content about the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2018, please come to the Fortune Teller website!Who is the Zhongyuan Festival commemorating and what is the story behind it?In Taoism, the Zhongyuan Festival is mainly about promoting filial piety and aims to encourage good deeds and educate people. July 15th is the birthday of the God of Earth. The God of Earth pardons the sins of the Great Emperor Qingxu, whose name is Emperor Shun. He is the eighth-generation grandson of the Yellow Emperor. Because his biological mother died, his father remarried and his stepmother later gave birth to a son, Xiang. His father, stepmother and Xiang often harmed Shun, but Shun served his parents and treated his younger brothers with the same respect. He farmed in Lishan, fished in Lei Ze, and made pottery by the river. The people where he lived gathered together. In two years, a village was established, and in three years, a city was established. When he was twenty years old, he was famous for his filial piety. Therefore, the Zhongyuan Festival is also called the "Filial Son Festival". When this festival comes, every household kills chickens and pigs, worships their ancestors and ghosts in the underworld, and at the same time, they give alms to the Yin Gong, offer sacrifices to their ancestors, and then save the wandering ghosts, which is called "Zhongyuan Pudu". In Buddhism, the Zhongyuan Festival is called the "Yulanpen Festival". There is a story behind it. Legend has it that after one of the ten great disciples of Kāśyapa, Venerable Mulian, was converted by Kṣitigarbha, his mother acted recklessly, beating the monks and cursing at them. The King of Hell was furious and sent her to hell to suffer. One day, Mulian traveled to hell and saw his mother turned into a hungry ghost. He was overwhelmed with sorrow, so he sent food to her. Unexpectedly, the food turned into flames before it even reached her mouth. The Buddha said: "The sins your mother committed when she was alive are too deep to be resolved by your own strength. You must rely on monks from all directions. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, prepare a hundred kinds of food and five kinds of fruits, place them in a basin, and hold a sacrifice together to feed the ghosts of all directions and liberate all the hungry ghosts. Only then can your mother be saved from danger." So Mulian acted according to the Buddha's will, and his mother was able to escape from the ghost path and ascend to heaven. The later Ullambana Festival came about because of the story of Mulian saving his mother. Therefore, although the festival is celebrated on the same day, the two religions still have different views on the significance of the Ghost Festival. |
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