Isn t the Midyear Festival a mess with relatives?

The Midyear Festival is known as the Ghost Festival, and it is generally believed that it is best not to go out on the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar to avoid hitting ghosts. In fact, these taboos are all superstitious legends, and of course there is no scientific basis. For many people, whether it works or not, they can at least find peace of mind.

As long as it does not affect the normal life and rest, it is better to believe it than not.

The midyear festival is the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and this day is commonly known as the "ghost festival". It is said that on this day, the ghost gate of Tiandifu was opened, and lonely souls and wild ghosts rushed to come to the world to have a good time and find something delicious to eat. This is the heaviest day of yin in the yang world, and it is generally believed that it is best not to go out during the Midyear Festival, so as not to hit ghosts, and not to go to the river to play, so as not to be pulled down by water ghosts as a stand-in.

From a scientific point of view, Zhongyuan Energy Saving goes to relatives, and from the traditional concept of the Chinese, Zhongyuan Festival cannot go to relatives, because the traditional concept of the Chinese is that going out will "bump into" ghosts.

The fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the Zhongyuan Festival of Taoism, which is called the Bon Festival in Buddhism and the Ghost Festival in Buddhism. In the traditional concept of the Chinese, the half of July coincides with the alternation of summer and autumn, at this time it is precisely the node of the alternation of yin and yang in heaven and earth, the yang energy is strong and weak, and the yin energy appears, and in this heaven and earth palace opens the gate of hell and releases ghosts, so it is common to carry out the activity of sacrificing ghosts.

Later generations also believe that the entire seventh lunar month should be the "Ghost Festival", the king of Hades on the first day of the seventh lunar month every year to open the ghost door to the sun to forage for food, enjoy people's sacrifices, on the last day of the seventh month, close the ghost gate, the group of ghosts have to return to the underworld.

The Midyear Festival is not a time not to walk with relatives, it is a family reunion festival where you can visit relatives and friends, and you can also go out for sightseeing.

It's best not to go to relatives and friends, after all, many people care about such things, you can go out as a family to travel, buy shopping or something, otherwise you go to other people's homes, although people don't say it, but people will be unhappy.

The Midyear Festival, also known as the Ghost Festival, is not only not allowed to walk around relatives, but it is also best not to go out.

Definitely, you can't go out during the Midyear Festival, it's not the New Year or the Spring Festival, you can't mess around, and relatives can't go to relatives' houses.

If you have that to say, let's go again in August.

It's better not to go to relatives during the midyear festival.

Try not to go to relatives during the midyear festival.

Midyear taboo:

1. Wind chimes are hung at the head of the bed, wind chimes are easy to attract ghosts, and sleeping is the most likely time to be invaded.

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.

Midyear is "Halloween."", that is, the festival of the living worshipping the dead. Not by custom. No one has to go to relatives on this day!

Midyear taboo:

1. Wind chimes are hung at the head of the bed, wind chimes are easy to attract ghosts, and sleeping is the most likely time to be invaded.

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. Avoid renting and stepping on the paper, which 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 many taboos that were not excavated, and these so-called taboos were attached to the later generations in the development and evolution of the festival.

In the countryside, some traditional folk customs have been passed down to Qiaotuanjin. As we all know, the Midyear Festival is celebrated on July 14 and July 10 every year. This time is commonly known as Halloween, and we locally call it the first and a half days of July.

During this period, relatives are generally not allowed to go, because there is a saying in the countryside: ghosts are rampant in the middle of July, and I am afraid that some ghosts will come back from the outside to disperse hail, which is not good for the master's family.

In our local area, the most important thing in July is to sacrifice relatives, mainly a kind of yearning and nostalgia for relatives. During the July and a half period, many parents will tell their children not to play near the water, not to play by the pond, because there are many ghosts waiting to be reincarnated, so it is best not to play near the water.

Midyear taboo:

1. Wind chimes are hung at the head of the bed, wind chimes are easy to attract ghosts, and sleeping is the most likely time to be invaded.

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, a festival to remember the ancestors, and there were not many taboos, these so-called taboos were attached to the later generations in the development and evolution of the festival.