What is the festival called as the Halloween ?

The Yangjian Festival, which is relative to the "Ghost Festival", is called the Midyear Festival. Zhongyuan Festival, a traditional Chinese festival, is also known as the seventh half and the seventh month.

Ten. Fourth, the ancestor worship festival, the Bon Festival, the local official festival, the festival customs mainly include ancestor worship, river lanterns, worship of the soul, burning paper ingots, sacrificing the land, etc. "Zhongyuan Festival" is the name of Taoism, and the folk secular name is "July Half" (or "July 14"), and its production can be traced back to the ancestral spirit worship and related time sacrifices in ancient times. The festival is related to the principle of the cycle of yin and yang in ancient culture, and in the Book of Changes, "seven" is a changing number, the number of resurrection.

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 mature, the folk according to the routine to worship the ancestors, with new rice and other sacrifices, to the ancestors to report the autumn harvest. 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. Taoism has the "Three Yuan Theory", "the heavenly official Shangyuan blesses, the local official Zhongyuan forgives sins, and the water official Xiayuan relieves misfortune, and the name of "Zhongyuan" comes from this. Buddhism calls the seventh half of the month "Obon".

In the Tang Dynasty, when the rulers advocated Taoism, the Taoist Zhongyuan Festival began to flourish, and gradually fixed the "Zhongyuan" as the name of the festival, and the festival was set on July 15, and has been along until now.

Halloween is the Midyear Festival. China has the Shangyuan Festival, the Middle Yuan Festival, and the Lower Yuan Festival. Shangyuan Festival is the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, and the Midyear Festival is the Ghost Festival on the 15th day of July.

The next festival is October 15. These three festivals are related to the Emperor of the Three Officials, the heavenly officials bless, the local officials forgive their sins, and the water officials relieve misfortunes. The Midyear Festival is the day when the local officials forgive their sins.

July 15 is the Ghost Festival, and August 15 is the Yang Festival, also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Mid-Autumn Festival, this day of family reunion.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, which is a traditional festival in China. The popularity of the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Song Dynasty, and by the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, it has become one of the main festivals in China as well as New Year's Day.

The sun is called the Midyear Festival, today it is called the Ghost Festival, also called the April Fool's Day, and the fool is lazy to the South Street Yulan Festival.

Halloween Festival is a folk festival in China, also called the Midyear Festival, or the half of July. It is used to worship ancestors.

The festival in the yang world is called the Zhongyuan Festival. Because it happens to be in the middle of the year, it is called the Midyear Festival.

Halloween:

1. Midyear Festival.

Every year on the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, it is the traditional Chinese festival "Zhongyuan Festival", also known as the "Ghost Festival", or "the half of the seventh month". In the traditional folk concept, the seventh month of the lunar calendar is mysterious and dark, and the ghost gate of the underworld is wide open, and all ghosts come to the world from the underworld to visit relatives, friends, descendants, or seek offerings, and do not return until the end of July when the ghost gate is closed.

As a taboo, people rarely choose to celebrate festive ceremonies such as marriages, moves, or openings in July. And the peak of this "ghost month" is undoubtedly the day of "July and a half", which is also known as the "Midyear Festival".

2. Qingming Festival.

April 4 or 5 or 6 every year is the Qingming Festival in our country. Qingming Festival is also known as the "Ghost Festival", and the difference between the Qingming Festival and the Zhongyuan Festival is that the objects of sacrifice are different.

The deceased commemorated on the Qingming Festival are their ancestors and relatives, and the Midyear Festival is mainly to sacrifice the wandering souls and wild ghosts, burning paper by the river, putting river lanterns, etc., to surpass these unworshipped souls. Qingming Festival is one of the important traditional festivals in China, which is not only a festival for people to pay tribute to their ancestors and remember the martyrs, but also a link for the Chinese nation to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors.

3. Ancestor Festival.

Every year on the first day of the tenth lunar month, it is China's "ancestor worship festival", and the Qingming Festival and the Zhongyuan Festival, and is called the three "ghost festivals" of the year. In order to prevent the ancestors from being cold and cold in the underworld, on this day, people have to burn five-colored paper, send warm clothes to them, and send warmth to the lonely souls and wild ghosts, so this day is also called the "Winter Clothes Festival".

At the same time, this day also marks the arrival of the harsh winter, so it is also a day for parents and lovers to send warm clothes to those they care about.