Why is there Halloween? There is no history or legend, some to say.

You won't know Qu Yuan's story, right?

Halloween originated from the story of Mulian saving his mother: "There are monks who have Mulian, and the magic is magnificent." His mother fell into the path of hungry ghosts, and when the food was entered, it turned into flames, and the hunger was too great.

Mulian was unable to save his mother, so he sought advice from the Buddha and taught him to make a Bon on July 15 to save his mother. It is said that after experiencing a lot of hardships in the underworld, Mulian saw his dead mother Liu and found that she was being tortured by a group of hungry ghosts. Muren had no choice but to ask the Buddha for help, and the Buddha was moved by Muren's filial piety and granted him the Bon Sutra.

According to the instructions, on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, Muren offered his mother a vegetarian meal with a Bon Shengguo vegetarian fast. The starving mother finally got food. To commemorate Meren's filial piety, Buddhists have a grand "Bon Festival" every year, which we now call "Halloween".

Ancestor worship is not a superstitious activity that acknowledges the existence of ghosts and gods. Otherwise, the tradition of ancestor worship will be mixed with the folk belief in ghosts and gods, and the solemn commemoration of relatives will be alienated into superstitious activities; The main reason why ancestor worship activities in the past were criticized by people was that they were superstitious. In today's efforts to "rebuild traditions", if we fail to avoid customs, we will lead the tradition of ancestor worship astray again.

The Chinese's sacrifice to their ancestors is a moral belief, a poetic act to express emotions, and a gratitude and remembrance from individual emotions.

Qingming should go to the grave, and at the same time there is a custom of stepping into the green, and the new soil will be raised to the grave and added to the grave. In the past, Qingming was also called the Cold Food Festival, which was as long as 100 days, Cao Cao changed it to one day, Tang changed it to three days before Qingming, all the fires had to be extinguished, and after the cold food, a new fire came out of the palace. Qingming also has to insert willow branches, wear wicker hats, fly kites, and swing.

Where there are gods, there are ghosts, that is the ancient belief in China, China has always been ancestor worship, ancestor worship is the belief in the eternity and existence of ancestors, so it is believed that ancestors will become ghosts and gods after death and gaze at themselves in the sky. Bless yourself. So there are Halloween in China, and Halloween in foreign countries.

China's Halloween Festival is ancestor worship and foreign ones are to drive away, there is a difference between foreign countries have vampire legends for a long time, and their religion means believing in the existence of ghosts and gods, but believing in existence is not the same as real existence.

Explain why the midyear festival in traditional culture is called the Ghost Festival?

Because ancient China believed that the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar was the heaviest day of the year, the ghost door was opened, and the deceased ancestors could go home for reunion, so it was called the Ghost Festival.

Every year on the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, it is the annual "Ghost Festival" in China, which is called the "Yu Lan Festival" in Buddhism. Legend has it that on this day, King Yama would open the gate of hell called "Onimon Pass", allowing the imprisoned ghosts to roam freely until the end of July.

The Midyear Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, commonly known as "July Half" and "Ghost Festival", which is on July 15 and July 14.

The midyear festival is in Buddhism and has a close relationship with the Buddhist Bon Festival, but the midyear festival is not a pure Buddhist festival, but a folk festival formed by the influence of Buddhist thought.

The Zhongyuan Festival, Chinese New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival, and Chongyang Festival (except, Qing, and Jiu) are the four major festivals of ancestor worship in traditional Chinese festivals. "Daozang" contains, "On the day of the Middle Yuan, the local officials searched and selected everyone to distinguish between good and evil......In its day and night to recite the scriptures, the ten great sages, and the spirit of the spirit. Prisoner hungry ghost, relieved at that time".

Most people remember their relatives on this festival and send good wishes for the future.

Zhongyuan Festival, the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, is commonly known as the seventh half of the month. Legend has it that all the ghosts were released on that day, and the people generally carried out activities to worship the ghosts. Whenever there is a new mourner, for example, to go to the new grave, and generally in the local sacrifice of lonely souls and wild ghosts, so it is a festival centered on worshipping ghosts, and it has become the largest ghost festival in Chinese folk.

The traditional "Midyear Festival" is on the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. Originated from Buddhist classics, it is said that Mu Lian saw her deceased mother in the underworld who was entangled by hungry ghosts and could not eat, so she asked the Buddha for help, and the Buddha felt his filial piety and granted the "Obon Sutra", allowing him to set up a vegetarian feast for his mother on July 15 every year, and then passed it on, so it became the tradition of "Obon".

How did Halloween come about? This is directly related to a monk's rescue of ghosts.

How did Halloween come about, do you know how it came about during the Midyear Festival?

Halloween is derived from the ancient philosophical thought of Yin and Yang Five Elements Theory, Halloween, as the name suggests, is a festival for ghosts and festivals for worshipping ghosts. There are four major ghost festivals in China, namely the July and a half, the Qingming Festival, the third day of March, and the first day of October. There are Mexican Halloween festivals in the West, but the most famous is Halloween.

This entry will introduce in detail the origins and cultures of each Halloween festival in China and abroad.

Halloween is when the gates of hell are opened.

The Midyear Festival is a Taoist saying, which was used in ancient China.

1. The fifteenth day of July and October is called Shangyuan, Zhongyuan, and Xiayuan: Shangyuan is the day of blessing of heavenly officials, Zhongyuan is the day of forgiveness of sins by local officials, and Xiayuan is the day of relief of water officials. Therefore, it will be in the middle of the Yuan to purify the lonely soul and wild ghosts.

Zhongyuan Festival - the traditional Chinese folk festival "Zhongyuan Festival" on July 15 of the lunar calendar. In the south, it is also known as "Halloween". It is also said that the Chinese Metaverse Festival is on July 14 of the lunar calendar.

On the day of the festival, people bring sacrifices to the grave to pay tribute to their ancestors, which is similar to going to the grave on the Qingming Festival. In the feudal era, the local government also ordered the monks and Taoists of the temple to set up a solitary soul dojo to pay tribute to the fallen soldiers, and during the mid-year festival, people burned a large amount of paper money.

Halloween is just a traditional custom, and no one can say whether there are really ghosts.

There are two kinds of ghosts, one is the inner ghost and the other is the outer ghost. The so-called ghost in the heart is that there is a ghost in the heart. Think about it day and dream night night.

If you're mentally tired, anxious, or thinking about something, it's easy to get ghostly. This kind of ghost is very harmful to the human body, and it is extremely harmful to the heart and cerebral blood vessels. There are generally three kinds of external manifestations of ghosts, one is nightmares, such as sleeping in an incorrect posture, or hands pressed on the chest, it is easy to have nightmares; The second is eye confusion, for example, when there is nothing in your eyes, you will suddenly find that something has passed through, which is a manifestation of mental trance and lack of concentration; The third is that there are ghosts behind you, the most common is that when you are alone at night, you will always feel that there is something around you to spy on you, which makes you very afraid, which is actually a psychological effect.

The so-called external ghost is what people often call a little ghost. There are two kinds of ghosts in legends, one is that the soul has an obsession after death, and there is no underworld, and it stays in the world, which is called a ghost; One is that the feminine creature grows older and develops wisdom, which is called the Yin Spirit. However, what I said above is just a legend, and it is something that cannot be verified, at least I have never seen it.

As for whether there are external ghosts, I think there are, but ghosts are not easy to form. There must be two necessary conditions for the generation of ghosts, one is the mental power before death, or the brain waves are very strong, and they will not dissipate as soon as a person dies; Second, the external environment is conducive to the retention of brain waves. Most people will disappear immediately after death, and no ghosts will form.

Except in the case of extreme fear or other strong obsessions before death, the soul is out of the body and exists by chance, the ghost will appear. The ghosts produced by this situation only have a little memory of the time of death, and there is no memory of the events of life. In fact, such opportunities are rare, and even if they do, the ghosts will slowly dissipate over time.

There may be a certain probability that the ghost will survive for a long time and develop intelligence, but this probability is 1 in 100 billion.

At the same time, it should be said that there are really ghosts in this world, so don't be afraid. As the old saying goes, people are afraid of ghosts for three points, and ghosts are afraid of people for seven points. Man is more powerful than a ghost, and he can be destroyed with a single breath.