Why is there a connection between the Midyear Festival and Zhong Kui?

Isn't there a lot of ghosts on the day of the Midyear Festival, and legend has it that Zhong Kui collects ghosts, so this day is also related to him.

Because Zhong Kui is a ghost catcher, and the ghosts of the Midyear Festival are all released, it must have something to do with Zhong Kui.

Zhong Kui's shape may be transformed from the Chinese phase of the ceremony"The ugliness of the appearance drives away the ghost with the ghost.

Isn't there a lot of ghosts coming out of the Midyear Festival, however, in Chinese history, we can all know that Zhong Kui is also a great demon collector, and by the way, he also collects ghosts.

Zhong Kui is a ghost catcher, and the ghosts of the Midyear Festival are all released.

Because Zhong Kui is the god of exorcism, the Zhongyuan Festival happens to be a ghost festival.

Zhong Kui and Wu Yi are also inextricably linked. The ritual is a ritual of exorcising ghosts and epidemics in ancient times, and the shape of Zhong Kui is transformed from the fang phase of the ritual, which is the protagonist of the ritual.

Zhong Kui is a ghost catcher, and the extravagance of the Midyear Festival is the heaviest.

Because Zhong Kui is a heavenly master who is a ghost.

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.

Zhongyuan Festival, that is, the July Half Ancestor Festival, also known as Shi Gu, Ghost Festival, Zhai Gu, Diguan Festival, and Qingming Festival, Winter Clothes Festival and called the three major ghost festivals, the Zhongyuan Festival evolved from the ancient era of "July and a half" agricultural harvest and autumn taste ancestor worship. The Zhongyuan Festival originated in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and legend has it that the Bodhisattva (Lord Yama) of this heaven and earth made the ghost door wide open, and countless ghosts from the underworld will flock to the yang world, meaning "go home".

On this night, "going home early" is the most desirable thing for people. On this day, the custom of putting out lamps so that ghosts can be reincarnated is inherited, and in the Buddhist saying, the day of the Midyear Festival is to be grateful for the growth and nurturing grace of the parents, so on the day of the Midyear Festival, a life of death can not only send sorrow to the deceased, but also let people remember the kindness of their parents.

The midyear festival is commonly known as the Ghost Festival, Shi Gu, and the seventh half of the month, and it is called the Obon Festival in Buddhism. Together with Chinese New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival and Chongyang Festival, the three festivals are traditional Chinese ancestor worship festivals, and they are also traditional cultural festivals popular in countries with Chinese character cultural circles. In the midyear festival, there is a custom of putting river lanterns and burning paper ingots.

On the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the Han nationality called the Shangyuan Festival, which is the celebration of the Lantern Festival, which has existed in ancient times; On July 15, the Han nationality called the Zhongyuan Festival, sacrificing to the ancestors; On October 15, the Han nationality called the Xia Yuan Festival, which is to eat cold food and commemorate the sages. The midyear festival falls on the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and in some areas it is on the 14th day of the seventh month.

The mid-year festival was originally a small autumn, and a number of crops were ripe, and the people routinely worshiped their ancestors, and made offerings with new rice and other offerings, and reported the autumn to their ancestors. Therefore, every mid-year festival, every family worships their ancestors, and when they make offerings, they perform rituals. On July 15, go to the grave to sweep the grave and worship the ancestors.

Overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese will send batches of silver during the four festivals of Qingming, Zhongyuan, Winter Solstice and New Year, otherwise they will be regarded as disrespectful to their ancestors, unfilial to their elders, and irresponsible to their wives.

Legend has it that on the day of the Yuan Festival, all the ghosts will be released, and the people generally carry out ghost worship activities. Whenever there is a new funeral, for example, they have to go to the new grave, and generally in the local area to sacrifice lonely souls and wild ghosts, which has become one of the largest Chinese folk festivals.

Origin: According to Buddhist allusions, there is the following allusion to the origin of the "Yu Lan Festival": according to legend, when the Buddha Shakyamuni was alive, he accepted ten disciples, one of whom was a practitioner named Mulian, whose parents had died before attaining enlightenment, because Mulian was very concerned about his dead mother, he used Tianyantong to inspect his mother's life in the underworld, it turned out that they had become hungry ghosts, and they had no food or drink, and their situation was pitiful.

Mu Lian felt very heartbroken after seeing it, so he used his magic power to take some food to his mother to eat, but unfortunately as soon as the food was delivered to his mouth, it immediately turned into flames, Mu Lian was very heartbroken after seeing this situation, so he told Shakyamuni about this situation, the Buddha taught him that when his mother was alive, he planted a lot of sins, so after death, he fell into the hungry ghost road, and there was no return, this evil obstacle is not something he can resolve alone, and the strength of everyone must be gathered, so Mu Lian joined forces with a group of monks to hold a large-scale worship ceremony, To transcend the souls of the dead. Later, this legend has been passed down to future generations, and gradually formed a folk custom, every year in the seventh lunar month, people will slaughter chickens and ducks, burn incense and burn clothes, worship the hungry ghosts from the underworld, in order to resolve their grievances, so as not to harm the world, over time, the custom of Halloween has been formed.

1 Theoretically speaking, Zhong Kui is a god, but he is also in charge of the ghost catching profession, so he generally walks in the world. 2 Zhong Kui counts the high-level of the underworld, in orthodox Taoism, the underworld is not only those gods, but also Taishan Fujun (the oldest god of the underworld), the Emperor Xudu (one person under ten thousand people), and the five ghost emperors (subordinate to the Emperor Xudu), these seven bigwigs are here, after all, it is impossible to dispatch the big guys for small things. Therefore, it is usually the king of Hades (military power and criminal law) who is in charge.

And Yan Jun (Yan Jun was handed over to Hades after the trial of fools) is at the same level as Hades, but the division of labor is different. Then down is Zhong Kui, so he can be regarded as a high-level underground. 3：

Hades, judges, black and white impermanence, bull head and horse face. 4: Zhong Kui is said to be canonized by the emperor of the world and the Jade Emperor, and the ghost catcher is not afraid of ghosts.

Because Zhong Kui is a ghost catcher, the underworld is a ghost collector, Zhong Kui is a god, and Hades is a ghost, they are all dealing with ghosts, so it can also be said to be the same door Because the ghost gate knows that Zhong Kui is an expert in catching ghosts, so the ghosts are afraid of him Zhong Kui is a god and lives in the sky If you want to say who cares about them, of course it is the Jade Emperor and the great immortal Zhong Kui's official is not very big Since he catches ghosts, so the Jade Emperor allows him to move freely in the world!!

Zhong Kui didn't catch up with the time of reincarnation, so he became a wild ghost, Zhong Kui is the official of the emperor of the yang world, and the Jade Emperor approves! The control is not as big as Hades, but he is an inspection, and if Hades decides a wrong case, he has the right to overturn the case

If the prefectural government is a public security system, it is responsible for handling cases, and there is also a court, which decides on life and death. Zhong Kui is the inspection institute.

Zhong Kui is the ugliest of the ancient Chinese gods. And always in the company of the evil spirits of the underworld. But people did not reject him because of this.

Every New Year's Day, people have to hang his portrait to ward off ghosts and evil spirits. This custom has lasted for more than 1,000 years since the Tang Dynasty.

The origin of the Zhongyuan Festival was originally that Taoists believed that the local officials would descend to the mortal world on the 15th day of July to determine the good and evil in the world, so they made fasting and Jiao on this day, and later evolved into a folk ancestor worship day. After Buddhism entered China, the Bon festival was held on July 15, and Buddhists offered the Three Jewels with sumptuous offerings to relieve the suffering of their ancestors. In the Tang and Song dynasties, these rituals were absorbed into the folk customs of worshipping ancestors during the Zhongyuan Festival, and they were continued.

Every year on the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the "Midyear Festival", which is commonly known as the "Ghost Festival" in some places.

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 keep chattering in the mouth when burning:

So-and-so came to collect the money. "In the end, I have to burn a bunch outside the circle, saying that it is 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".

The name Zhongyuan originated in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the Zhongyuan Festival is also known as the Ghost Festival or the Bon Festival. Buddhism also holds a transcendental puja on this day, called the yiran mana (ullambana in Hindu). The meaning of the Bon is to hang upside down, and the pain of life is like a bat hanging upside down on a tree, hanging and miserable.

In order to save sentient beings from the suffering of hanging upside down, it is necessary to chant sutras and give food to the lonely souls and ghosts. This coincided with the Chinese Ghost Moon Worship, so the Midyear Festival and the Yulan Festival were handed down at the same time.

The seventh month of the lunar calendar is commonly known as the ghost month; During the Ghost Moon, the lonely ghosts in the underworld will be released.

The origin of the Lantern Festival, why is it the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and what customs do you know?

The "Midyear Festival" is the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year, and is called the "Obon Festival", also known as the "Ghost Festival". The reason why it is called Halloween is that it is said that on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the local officials in charge of the gate of hell open the gate of hell so that the deceased ancestors can go home for reunion, so the people should set up a dojo and put steamed buns for the lonely souls and wild ghosts to eat. On this day, we must pay homage to our ancestors, go to the grave, and light lotus lamps to light the way home for the deceased.

Each temple holds pujas, prays for auspicious dojos, emphasizes filial piety, and transcends the soul of the deceased. Therefore, the midyear festival is actually a festival centered on worshipping ghosts, so there is also the saying of Halloween.

The midyear festival evolved from the "July and a half" harvest in ancient times and the autumn taste of ancestor worship. July and a half is the festival of the folk early autumn to celebrate the harvest, reward the earth, there are a number of crops mature, the folk should worship the ancestors according to the routine, with new rice and other sacrifices, report to the ancestors of the autumn harvest, is a kind of cultural traditional festival to remember the ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect the ancestors and do their filial piety.

It is believed that ancestors will return home to visit their children and grandchildren in the middle of July, so it is necessary to pay homage to their ancestors. This kind of ancestor worship behavior is a manifestation of the traditional ethics of chasing the distance cautiously and thinking about the source, and it is a kind of cultural tradition of the ancestors who are grateful for virtue. The harvest of crops in autumn is also a good time to share the joy of the harvest with the ancestors, and the worship ceremony is usually held in the evening of mid-July.

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 lunar month to avoid collisionsGhost. 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 day when the yin energy in the yang world is the heaviestIt 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.

In addition to not being suitable for going out during the Midyear Festival, there are many taboos:1. Stealing sacrifices, these are foods that belong to the "good brothers", and using them without their consent will only invite trouble. 2. Whistle, whistle at night, and beware of "good brothers" coming to you.

3. Call your name, don't call your name at night, try to be commensurate with your code name, so as not to be remembered by the "good brother".

4. Swimming, the "good brother" will play a game of ghost lifting your feet with you, and if you are not careful, your life will be carried away. 5. The most popular time for staying up late is in the middle of the night, and the time when the ghost is the most prosperous is also in the middle of the night, in comparison, who will win? 6. Leaning against the wall, "good brothers" usually like to rest on the cold wall, and leaning against the wall can easily cause ghosts.

7. Pick up the money on the side of the road, which is used to buy up the bull and horse noodles, and if you violate their things, they will teach you a lesson.