What is Halloween, and when is Halloween

Ghosts have rules for ghosts, and you can't hurt people casually, and you don't have to be afraid to walk at night.

The ghost door of the third watch on the 14th opened to the ghost door of the third watch on the 15th closed, it should be at midnight on August 30, 12. It ended at midnight on the 15th.

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, also known as the Zhongyuan Festival, activities such as worshipping ancestors and releasing river lanterns are held.

The fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the fourteenth day of the eighth month of the solar calendar.

July 15 of the lunar calendar.

Halloween 2011 is celebrated on August 14, 2011 in the Gregorian calendar.

It is also called the Midyear Festival.

As the saying goes, it's half a month.

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Halloween generally falls on July 15 of the lunar calendar

It can also be called Zhongyuan Festival, which is a name from Taoism.

It is also a Buddhist festival, called the jujube orchid and the celery opening meeting.

However, the folk generally call it Halloween Festival and the first and a half of July.

Halloween is on the 30th of August 2023.

Zhongyuan Festival is the name of Taoism, the folk secular is called Zheng Qiqiban, and Buddhism is called Obon. The festival customs mainly include ancestor worship, river lanterns, worship of the dead, burning paper ingots, sacrificing land, etc., and its birth can be traced back to the ancestral spirit worship 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.

It is a kind of cultural traditional festival to remember the ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect the ancestors and fulfill filial piety. In the Book of Changes, "seven" is a changing number, the number of resurrection, and the Book of Changes: "Repeating its way, seven days come and go, and the heavens are also."

Seven is the number of yang, the number of days, after the yang energy between heaven and earth is extinguished, after seven days can be resurrected, this is the way of heaven and earth, the principle of the cycle of yin and yang, the folk choose to worship their ancestors on July 14 (27) and the number of "seven" is related.

Historical development

Judging from the historical documents, the activity of worshipping ancestors in autumn existed in the pre-Qin era. The custom of worshiping ancestors in July and a half is the product of local culture, and the inclusive festival customs are more complicated, which is not only the folk autumn taste ancestor festival, but also the Taoist Zhongyuan Festival and the Buddhist Bon Festival. In the seventh month of the Mengqiu lunar calendar, the crops are ripe, and some places in China have a tradition of holding ancestor worship ceremonies at this time since ancient times.

The ancients had to offer sacrifices to their ancestors in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and in July, they offered newly harvested grains such as melons, fruits, vegetables and millet millet, which was called "autumn taste", also known as "recommending new" and "tasting new", that is, autumn meant to let the ancestors taste new. "Puning County Chronicle" said: "It is commonly said that the ancestor examines the soul to return, and the salty clothes and wine are recommended, although the poor dare not be lacking", among the sacrifices, the clothes are indispensable.

Because of the end of the summer in July, it is necessary to change clothes to protect against the cold, and "the fire in July is in July, and the clothes are given in September".

The above content reference: Encyclopedia - Midyear Festival.