Why is the Zhongyuan Festival called the Ghost Festival? What is the saying?
The name Zhongyuan Festival may be less known, but its other name "Ghost Festival" is more well-known. So, do you know why Zhongyuan Festival is also called Ghost Festival? It is not until the seventh month of the lunar calendar that people truly enter the hot summer, with the scorching sun making it unbearable. To know more details about the seventh lunar month of 2018, welcome to the Fortune Teller website.Why is the Zhongyuan Festival called the Ghost Festival?During the Ghost Festival, the gates of hell open wide and hundreds of ghosts roam the world at night. At this time, people generally hold activities to worship ghosts. Families that have recently lost a loved one must visit the new grave, and generally offer sacrifices to lonely ghosts in the local area. If you stay in the wilderness, you will see the strange spectacle of hundreds of ghosts parading at night, so it is called Ghost Festival. Ghost Festival is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival. Together with Qingming Festival and Cold Clothes Festival, it is known as one of the three major ghost festivals in China. Among them, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the largest sacrificial festival and also the largest ghost festival. The entire festival is centered around worshiping ghosts. On this day, every family worships their ancestors, and some even hold family banquets, performing rituals when offering sacrifices. Three rounds of pouring wine indicate that the ancestral feast is over and the family will sit together again to have a festive dinner. After dark, take firecrackers, paper money, incense and candles, find a secluded flat area by a river or pond, and sprinkle a circle with lime to indicate a restricted area. Then pour some rice and water in the circle, burn some paper money, set off firecrackers, and respectfully send the ancestors off to the "underworld".What should we pay attention to during the Ghost Festival?1. Don’t sleep with disheveled hair: During the Ghost Month, there are wandering ghosts everywhere. If you sleep with disheveled hair, be careful that they may mistake you for one of their own and try to wake you up to chat. 2. Women should not go out during their menstrual period. During their menstrual period, their own magnetic field will be unstable due to their physical condition and they are easily affected by other strong magnetic fields, so they should be more cautious. 3. Releasing water lanterns. Out of sympathy for the souls who drowned in the water, fearing that they would not be able to find their way home, a grand "releasing water lanterns" ceremony is held the night before the Purdue Festival, hoping that the "water lanterns" will lead the souls back to the world of the living to enjoy the Purdue offerings. 4. Don’t look around. Good brothers like to hide and scare people. If you look around and get scared, that’s the best time for them to invade you. 5. Don’t stay up late. Late at night is when human energy is at its lowest, and late at night is also when ghost energy is at its highest. In comparison, who will win? 6. Don’t pick up money on the street. The money is used to bribe the evildoers. If you violate their things, you will easily be taught a lesson by them. 7. Pay attention to the direction of the slippers' toes facing the bed: good brothers will look at the direction of the toes of the shoes to determine where the stranger is. If the toes of the shoes are facing the head of the bed, then good brothers will go to bed and sleep with you. 8. Don’t take photos at night, as this can easily include your friends from the spirit world in the photos and bring them home. 9. Don’t be alone. It’s true that being alone will easily attract the covetousness of your good brothers. 10. Don’t play games like Ouija board games or Die board games. This kind of thing could easily go wrong at any time, let alone on Ghost Festival. |
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