Is there a connection between Zhongyuan Festival and Zhong Kui

The midyear festival was originally a festival to worship the local officials. The ancients regarded the fifteenth day of the first lunar month as the birthday of the heavenly official, the Shangyuan Festival (i.e., the Lantern Festival), the fifteenth day of July as the birthday of the local official, the Zhongyuan Festival, and the fifteenth day of October as the birthday of the water official, which was the Xiayuan Festival. Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty "Puning County Chronicles" said:

It is commonly said that the ancestor examines the soul, and the salty clothes and wine are recommended, although the poor dare not lack. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the people will set up a dojo and put steamed buns for the lonely souls and wild ghosts to eat; Worship ancestors, go to graves, light lotus lamps, and light the way home for the deceased.

Zhong Kui is not a historical figure with a prototype, but a fictional ghost-slaying deity. Yang Shen researched that Zhong Kui's name came from the magic weapon "Zhong Kui". The end of the sunflower is a kind of vertebrae used by the ancients, in the Tang Dynasty often had the use of "end of the sun", "Zhong kui", "Zhong Kui" and "Zhong Kui".

Qing Zhaoyi believes that "Zhongkui" was originally a thing to chase away ghosts, and later generations took it as a name for its ability to ward off evil spirits, and attached it to the real person.

Zhong Kui and Wu Yi are also inextricably linked. The ritual was a ritual in ancient times to exorcise ghosts and plagues, and there are still places to keep this activity. The ritual was first seen in the Analects of the Township Party

The villagers are in court and stand on the steps. Zhu Xi's note: "So the epidemic is chased."

Zhong Kui's shape may be transformed from Fang Xiang in the Fu Yi, and Fang Xiang is the protagonist of the Fu Yi. There is a record in "Zhou Li, Xia Guan": "Fang Xiang's family, the palm is covered with bear skin, ** four eyes."

The ugliness of the appearance drives away the ghost with the ghost.

In the Song Dynasty, the elder Meng Yuan's "Tokyo Menghualu" recorded the big ceremony held in the palace, and in addition to the door gods and judges, there were also Zhong Kui. In addition to appearing in the court of the court,Zhong Kui also played the role of a "humanoid deity" in folk folk music such as "beating the night hu" (driving away the people) and "dancing Zhong Kui".

There shouldn't be any inevitable connection between them, but Zhong Kui is a ghost catcher, so there should be some small connection!

There should be some connection, Zhong Kui is a little ghost, so there should be a connection between Zhongyuan Festival and Zhong Kui.

Of course there is a connection.

Zhong Kui and the door god Shen Tu and Yu Lei have the same attribute of subduing ghosts. Ying Shao's "Customs and Customs" contains: I would like to press the "Book of the Yellow Emperor":

In ancient times, there were two people, Yu Lei Kundi, the performance of the ghost, Du Shuo Mountain under the peach tree, a brief reading of the hundred ghosts, unreasonable, vain for the scourge, Tu and Yu Lei tied to the reed, insisted on eating the tiger. "Zong Yi's "Jing Chu Years Chronicles" contains: people"Make a peach and pull the household, called the fairy wood.

Painting two gods sticking to the left and right, the left god, the right Yu Lei, the vulgar door god. "

Shen Tu and Yu Lei are used as door gods to cure evil; Zhong Kui also has a similar effect, people hang Zhong Kui's statue, the intention is to drive away evil spirits.

There should be a little connection, in order to prevent the ghost from coming out, you can let Zhong Kui come out.

Zhong Kui is also a ghost, just a kind ghost, a good ghost, and he can also catch ghosts, so sometimes he will draw Zhong Kui on the Midyear Festival.

There's no connection between them, and I haven't heard of any legends.

No, July 15 is the Midyear Festival. It is mainly used to worship ancestors, so it is also called Ghost Festival.

It doesn't matter, July 15 is the Midyear Festival, nicknamed "Ghost Festival".

There is no clear record of this in the book now, and I think it is not.

The origin of Zhong Kui is impossible to verify, but according to many historical records, it can be roughly judged that Zhong Kui was a ghost hunter in the Tang Dynasty, and Zhong Kui's story was spread in the Song Dynasty and became famous.

Therefore, in the Yuan Dynasty, there should be Zhong Kui. Zhong Kui, as a ghost hunter, is famous for his ugly and terrifying face, and is also known as a door god. The Mongolian people of the Yuan Dynasty were fierce, and they didn't care as much about ghosts and gods as the Han people, and the Yuan people were steppe nomads.

Zhong Kui is limited to Han legends, and the Mongols still believe in immortality when they enter the customs, which has little to do with the dynasty. In the land of China, there are countless Han people, and the legends of China are almost aimed at all Han people.

Zhong Kui is the "Holy Monarch of the Blessed Town" in traditional Chinese culture. Ancient books record that he was a native of Zhongnanshan in Chang'an in the early Tang Dynasty (according to ancient records and research, Zhong Kui's hometown is the Happy Valley of Zhong Kui's hometown in Shijing Town, Xiahu County, Zhongnan Mountain, in the middle section of the Qinling Mountains in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province), born with a leopard's head and ringed eyes, an iron face and sideburns, and a strange appearance; However, he is a talented and wealthy character, who is plain and upright, upright, upright, upright, and honest.