Can I go to the temple to burn incense during the Ghost Festival? Can I go out during the Ghost Festival night?
The Zhongyuan Festival is a unique cultural festival of the Chinese nation and an inheritance of the ancients' "filial piety". According to legend, this day is when all ghosts come out, so people have to burn incense and offer sacrifices to their ancestors on this day. So, can we go to the temple to burn incense on the Zhongyuan Festival? Can I go out during the Ghost Festival night? Let’s take a look with the editor. When is the Zhongyuan Festival? The Zhongyuan Festival is on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month every year. It is a grand traditional festival during which activities such as ancestor worship and praying for blessings and peace will be held. Mr. Shuimo has carefully planned relevant content for the Zhongyuan Festival special topic, welcome to read.Can I go to the temple to burn incense during the Ghost Festival?You cannot go to the temple to burn incense during the Ghost Festival, which is scheduled for the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, commonly known as the Mid-Autumn Festival. Legend has it that on this day all ghosts are released from the underworld, and people generally hold activities to worship ghosts. It is a festival centered on worshiping ghosts and is the largest ghost festival among the Chinese people.There has been a tradition since ancient times that people do not go into temples during the Ghost Festival, but instead hold sacrifices outdoors . On this day, people will set up Taoist temples and put steamed buns for wandering ghosts to eat. On this day, people will worship their ancestors, visit graves, and light lotus lanterns to light the way home for the dead. The Taoist temple held a grand ceremony to pray for good fortune and to liberate the souls of the dead. At the same time, every family worships their ancestors on the Ghost Festival, 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". In the past, people would perform certain rituals to welcome the ghosts of their ancestors back home on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. They would offer tea and meals three times a day, in the morning, noon and evening, until they were sent back on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. Can I go out during the Ghost Festival night?It is best not to go out on the night of Ghost Festival <br /> According to legend, starting from July 1st every year, the King of Hell will order the gates of hell to be opened, allowing the wronged souls and evil ghosts who have been suffering in hell for a long time to walk out of hell, enjoy a short period of wandering, and enjoy the blood and food of the world. Therefore, people call July the Ghost Month. This month is considered an unlucky month, and people neither get married nor move. The 14th or 15th day of the seventh lunar month is the Yulan Festival, also known as the Zhongyuan Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival or the Ghost Festival. In the past, people not only worshipped their ancestors on this night, but also prepared some dishes, wine, rice, gold and silver paper, etc. to go to the intersection to worship ghosts and gods. |
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