Is it good fortune for people born on Ghost Day who are born under the sign of the sheep? What activities are there during Ghost Festival?
The Zhongyuan Festival is one of the three traditional ghost festivals in our country, and the Zhongyuan Festival has many customs and habits, worshiping ancestors and burning paper money is one of them. Is it good fortune for people born on Ghost Day who are born under the sign of the sheep? What activities are there during Ghost Festival? The arrival of the seventh month of the lunar calendar indicates that the scorching summer heat is gradually fading away and the heat is gradually subsiding. For more information about the auspiciousness and inauspiciousness of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, please come to the Fortune Teller website to learn more.Is it good for people born on Ghost Day when they are born in the Year of the Sheep?People born on Ghost Festival have a gentle personality, are mild and honest. For those who are married, the couple usually respect each other and their virtues can be passed on to their descendants. The only thing you should pay attention to is that if your descendants have the unlucky sign of being competitive and aggressive, you should pay more attention to the way you discipline them to avoid behavioral deviations that will damage your future. Overall fortune: Men have shallow family ties, so they tend to leave their hometowns and live and develop in other places; women's fate is a little unfortunate, their relationship with their husbands is shallow, and they are prone to separation and death. They should marry men with a more rigid fate. Generally speaking, their fate is ordinary.What activities are there during Ghost Festival?The festival to honor ancestors falls on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, so it is referred to as the "Mid-July" festival to honor ancestors. At this time, midsummer has passed and the cool autumn has just begun. People believe that their ancestors will return home to visit their descendants at this time, so they need to worship their ancestors. The worship ceremony is usually held in the evening before the end of July and is not limited to a specific day. On ordinary days, people worship their ancestors, but usually their tablets are not moved. When it comes to the "mid-July" ancestor worship, the tablets of the ancestors are taken out one by one and placed respectfully on an offering table used specifically for worship. Incense is then lit in front of each ancestor's tablet, and tea and food are offered three times a day, in the morning, noon and evening, until the tablets are returned on July 30. If you have portraits of your ancestors, please take them out and hang them up. When worshiping, people kowtow to each ancestor according to their seniority and order of seniority, pray silently, report to the ancestors and ask them to examine their words and deeds in the past year and bless them with peace and happiness.The Zhongyuan Festival is a very important folk festival. Many people will choose a day between the first and thirtieth day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar to hold sacrificial activities with offerings such as wine, meat, sugar cakes, and fruits to comfort the ghosts wandering in the human world and pray for their own peace and success throughout the year. For more grand ceremonies, monks and Taoists are even invited to chant scriptures and perform rituals to liberate the souls of the deceased. During this period, some people would place statues of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, Maudgalyayana and other Buddhas on a high platform, or ask artists to play the role of the exorcist god Zhong Kui (some people would ask artists to control Zhong Kui's puppets) to eliminate the resentment of the dead souls. People believe that the Ghost Festival is a festival for ghosts, so they should hang lanterns to celebrate for the ghosts. However, there is a difference between humans and ghosts, so the lanterns hung during the Zhongyuan Festival are different from those hung during the Shangyuan Festival. Man is Yang, ghost is Yin; land is Yang, water is Yin. The mysterious darkness underwater reminds people of the legendary hell where ghosts sink. Therefore, lanterns are hung on land during the Lantern Festival, and on water during the Ghost Festival. Today, releasing river lanterns has become a joyful activity. According to the Buddhist Ullambana Festival rituals, releasing river lanterns is just a small program and does not seem to be very important. Among the folk customs of the Ghost Festival, lighting lanterns is relatively important. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, people also worship the land and crops. Scatter the offerings into the fields. After burning the paper, the colorful paper is cut into strips and wrapped around the ears of crops. Legend has it that it can avoid hailstorms and ensure a good harvest in autumn. In some places, people also go to the Hou Tu Temple to hold sacrifices. In Dingxiang County, the folk custom is to hang hemp and grain on the door. |
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