What is the Midyear Festival

The midyear festival is also known as"Halloween"or"Obon"。The Midyear Festival is a Taoist saying"Zhongyuan"The name originated in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and is commonly known in some places"Halloween"、"Shi Gu", also known as the Day of the Dead, the seventh half of July. According to ancient books:

The Tao Sutra takes the fifteenth day of the first month as the upper yuan, the fifteenth day of the seventh month as the middle yuan, and the fifteenth day of October as the lower yuan. "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 Dynasty, the local officials searched and selected everyone to distinguish between good and ......evilIn 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.

July 15 is the Midyear Festival. It is mainly used to worship ancestors, so it is also called Ghost Festival. The Midyear Festival is also known as the Day of the Dead, the month and a half.

The fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the Midyear Festival. Ancestor worship activities are widely carried out among the people. Rich and poor, they should prepare wine, food, and paper money to pay tribute to the deceased to show their remembrance of their deceased ancestors.

The mid-year festival is generally seven days, and there are new dead and old dead. Those who died within three years are called new deceased, and those who died three years ago are called old deceased. Superstition says that the old and the new should go home to see during this time, and it is also said that the time for the new and old dead to come back is not the same, the new dead will return first, and the old dead will return later.

Therefore, they should be sacrificed separately. The time to burn paper money is chosen in the dead of night, first sprinkle a few circles in the yard with lime, saying that it is to burn the paper money in the circle, and the lonely ghosts dare not come to rob it, and then burn it in a pile, and when burning, the mouth will keep chanting: "So-and-so came to receive the money."

In the end, a bunch of them were burned outside the circle, saying that they were burned for lonely souls and wild ghosts. On the day when the deceased go back, whether rich or poor, they must cook a good meal to honor the deceased, also known as "sending the dead".

On the 14th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar (July 15th in some places), Taoism calls it the Zhongyuan Festival, Buddhism calls it the Yu Lan Festival, and the folk used to call it the Ghost Festival, the half of July. Legend has it that on that day, the gates of hell were opened, and the ghosts of the underworld would be released. The Lord goes home; The ownerless wander about, wandering wherever he can get to eat.

Therefore, in July, people hold "Pudu" in the form of chanting sutras and other things to prevent them from causing harm to the world, or to pray for ghosts to help heal diseases and bless the safety of their homes. Therefore, there is a custom of Pudu in the southern region on this day.

The Zhongyuan Festival, commonly known as the Day of the Dead and the half of July, is an ancient traditional festival in China, and is known as the three major ghost festivals together with the Qingming Festival and the Winter Clothes Festival. The Zhongyuan Festival, which began in the Northern Wei Dynasty, has been more than 1,000 years old, and on this day, the custom of putting out lanterns so that ghosts can be reincarnated has been inherited from the times, and the characteristics of the times have been integrated into the development process. The Midyear Festival is also called the "Ghost Festival", on this day people have to sacrifice to their ancestors, and some people have to go to the river to put river lanterns on this day, legend has it that this day is the day when the hell is opened, and the deceased ancestors can go home for reunion, so it is also the Ghost Festival.

The Zhongyuan Festival is the product of the combination of Taoism and traditional Chinese folk customs, and the two can correspond, mainly based on the same cosmology: that is, the three worlds of heaven, earth and water, which are deified as the three realms under the jurisdiction of heavenly officials, earth officials and water officials. The folk commonly known as the "Three Realms Gong" refers to the gods of the Three Realms in terms of the three officials.

July 14 15 Ancestor worship is a traditional cultural festival popular in countries in the Chinese cultural circle and overseas Chinese areas, and Chinese New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival and Chongyang Festival are all traditional ancestor worship festivals of the Chinese nation.

Taboos on the Midyear Festival: 1. Hang wind chimes at the head of the bed, wind chimes are easy to attract ghosts, and sleeping is the most easily invaded moment. 2. Night tours, people with light characters try not to travel at night.

3. Burn dead paper on non-specific occasions. 4. Do not steal sacrifices, these are the food of ghosts. 5. Do not step on the paper, the paper is a sacrifice to the ghosts.

In ancient times, the seventh half of July was the folk ancestor worship festival, which was a festival to remember the ancestors, and there were not many taboos, and these so-called taboos were attached to the later generations in the development and evolution of the festival.

Zhongyuan Festival is the name of Taoism, and the folk secular is called the Ancestor Worship Festival on the 14th of July and the 14th of July (the other says the 15th of July), and the Buddhist name is the Bon Festival. The festival customs mainly include worshipping ancestors, releasing river lanterns, worshipping the souls of the dead, burning paper ingots, sacrificing land, etc. Its production can be traced back to the worship of ancestral spirits in ancient times and related time sacrifices.

July is the auspicious month, filial piety month, July and a half is the folk early autumn celebration of the harvest, reward the earth of the festival, there are a number of crops ripe, the folk according to the routine to worship the ancestors, with new rice and other sacrifices, to the ancestors to report the autumn success. The festival is a kind of cultural traditional festival to remember the ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect the ancestors and fulfill filial piety.

"July and a half" was originally a folk ancestor worship festival in ancient times, and it was called "Zhongyuan Festival", which originated from Taoism after the Eastern Han Dynasty. Buddhism calls the seventh half of the month "Obon". In a certain sense, the July Half Ancestor Festival belongs to the folk secular, the Zhongyuan Festival belongs to Taoism, and the Obon Festival belongs to Buddhism.

July 14 The 15th Ancestor Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in countries with Chinese character culture circles and overseas Chinese areas, and is a traditional ancestor worship festival along with Chinese New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival, and Chongyang Festival.

The Zhongyuan Festival is a traditional Chinese folk festival, on the 14th and 15th of July every year, its name originates from Taoism, and is also known as the Seventh Half and Ghost Festival, and it is called the Obon Festival in Buddhism. In the mid-year festival, people will put river lanterns to sacrifice the souls of the dead, burn paper ingots to sacrifice the land, etc., it is a kind of cultural traditional festival to remember the ancestors, and there are also wanderers outside, painting the ground and burning paper, which is equivalent to returning home.

The Midyear Festival is a traditional Chinese folk festival that falls on July 14 and 15 every year. The Zhongyuan Festival originated from Taoism, also known as the July Half and the Jujube Ghost Festival, and in Buddhism it is called the Bon Zhizhi Festival, which is the same as the Chinese New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival, Chongyang Festival and other traditional ancestor worship festivals of the Chinese nation.

In the mid-year festival, people have the custom of putting river lanterns, Kong Ming lanterns and burning paper money, among them, putting river lanterns to sacrifice the souls of the dead, burning paper ingots to sacrifice the land, is a kind of remembrance of the deceased ancestors, at the same time, it is also in the early autumn harvest time to pay the dregs to tear down the earth, report the autumn to the ancestors, and ask for the harvest of the next year.

Wanderers wandering in a foreign land, on the day of the Midyear Festival, they will draw the ground and burn paper, and the circled area refers to their hometown, and burning paper money in it is equivalent to returning to their hometown to worship their ancestors. On the day of the Midyear Festival, the circle of burning paper money on the ground is not allowed to be stepped on, as a sign of respect and respect for the homesickness of the wanderers.

The Zhongyuan Festival is a traditional folk festival, that is, the Ancestor Festival in July and a half, and the names are different in different places, and some places call it also known as Shi Gu, Ghost Festival, Zhai Gu, Diguan Festival, etc. <

The Zhongyuan Festival is a traditional folk festival, that is, the Ancestor Festival in July and a half, and the names are different in different places, and some places call it also known as Shi Gu, Ghost Festival, Zhai Gu, Diguan Festival, etc. The mid-year festival evolved from the harvest in July and the autumn taste of ancestors in ancient times. The midyear festival is the festival of the folk early autumn to celebrate the harvest and reward the earth, there are a number of crops that are ripe, the folk should worship the ancestors according to the routine, use the new rice and other sacrifices, report the autumn to the ancestors, it is a kind of cherry blossom good cultural traditional festival to remember the ancestors.

Zhongyuan Festival, that is, the seventh half of the ancestor worship festival, also known as Shi Gu, Ghost Festival, Zhai Gu, Diguan Festival, the festival customs mainly include ancestor worship, river lanterns, worship of the dead, burning paper ingots, etc. The folk routinely worship their ancestors, use new rice and other sacrifices, and report the autumn harvest to the ancestors, which is a kind of cultural traditional festival to remember the ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect the ancestors and fulfill filial piety.

According to traditional Chinese Taoism, because the local officials want to celebrate their birthdays and give amnesty to lonely ghosts, in order to avoid the interference of ghosts and gods, the world will set up Zhongyuan Pudu on July 15 to offer food and burn dead paper and Dharma boats, hoping that the lonely ghosts will ascend to Elysium after receiving gifts.

Later, Buddhism prevailed in China, and the relationship between the middle and Buddhism was also called Obon. The Bon Festival is the first custom of Buddhism, earlier than the Zhongyuan activities of Taoism, and China began to imitate it from the Liang Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Yu Lan is a Sanskrit transliteration, which means hanging upside down, and the basin is Chinese, which is a vessel for holding offerings, saying that this vessel can relieve the suffering of the first death and hanging upside down, so the Bon Festival is actually a filial piety festival.

The ceremony based on the Obon Sutra began with Emperor Wu of Liang. Since then, it has become a custom, and the emperors and the people of all dynasties have held the Bon Festival to repay their ancestors.

At present, the customs of the mid-year festival in some areas include the mid-yuan festival, worshipping the three officials, the Bon festival, burning the boat, worshipping the ancestors, releasing river lanterns, lighting lotus lanterns, and sending sheep.

The Midyear Festival is the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year, starting at 0:00 on the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar and ending at 24:00 on the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar.

The midyear festival is also known as "Obon" and "Obon" (in a certain sense, the midyear festival belongs to Taoism, and the Obon festival belongs to Buddhism), also known as the Day of the Dead, and the seventh half of July.

The Midyear Festival, also known as the "Obon Festival", is a fixed festival on the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year (in some places, especially in South China, it is the 14th day of July), and in some places it is also commonly known as the Ghost Festival and the Orphan. According to Buddhism, on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, Buddhists hold a "Obon puja" to worship the Buddha and monks to overcome the six sufferings and to thank their parents for their long-term kindness.