Is Qingming Festival a festival for ghosts Is Qingming Festival a ghost festival

Qingming Festival is not a ghost festival, it is a day for us to commemorate our ancestors, and it is a representative of filial piety. It is the real ghost festival in China.

Yes, together with the Winter Clothes Festival and the Midyear Festival, it is known as the three major "ghost festivals" of the year.

The Four Ghost Festivals: March.

3. Qingming Festival, July.

Ten. 5. The first day of October.

No. Halloween in a foreign country is.

It's not like it's a day in July, I forgot, it's not Qingming Festival anyway.

Qingming Festival is not a ghost festival, Qingming Festival, also known as the Qingqing Festival, Xingqing Festival, March Festival, ancestor worship festival, etc., the festival period is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring.

The Qingming Festival originates from the ancestral beliefs and spring rituals in ancient times, and has both natural and humanistic connotations, which is not only a natural solar term, but also a traditional festival. Tomb sweeping and ancestor worship and outing are the two major ritual themes of the Qingming Festival, and these two traditional ritual themes have been inherited in China since ancient times.

Qingming Festival is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation, which is not only a solemn festival of sweeping tombs and worshipping ancestors, but also a joyful festival for people to get close to nature, go out to play, and enjoy the fun of spring. Douzhi B (or the sun yellow longitude reaches 15 °) is the Qingming solar term, and the festival time is around April 5 in the Gregorian calendar. At this time, the vitality is vigorous, the yin qi is declining, all things "spit out the old and accept the new", and the earth presents the image of spring and scenery, which is a good season for the suburbs to go on a youth tour and perform tomb sacrifices.

The Qingming Ancestor Festival is very long, there are two sayings before and 8 days before and 10 days before and 10 days after, which are all during the Qingming Ancestor Festival in the past 20 days.

For the departure of our ancestors, there are forms such as burial, cremation, sea burial, and enshrinement in the temple. Regardless of the form of burial, it represents the resting place of the bones of the ancestors. People are divided into three souls and seven souls, and people die or go to hell or go to reincarnation, but there are still many souls left in the cemetery.

Therefore, this is also the older generation of people, who like to call the Qingming Festival "Ghost Festival".

Worshipping ancestors on this day makes sense that it is sacrificing the souls of the ancestors. Man lives in the yang, and his soul is in the underworld. and those who can communicate and pass through the boundaries of the underworld'That's it:

Gold and silver paper, paper people, paper gold mountains and silver mountains, paper silver dollars, paper bridges and so on. In the concept of some older generations, on the day of Qingming Festival, the "Death Mantra" is burned in front of the grave, on which the name of the deceased person who collects money is written, such as: "The late Chen Fujun is the old man of Yunshan" and other words, which can make the soul left in the tomb enter reincarnation.

Sweep the tomb and worship the ancestors

In Chinese history, it has long been a custom to ban fire and pay tribute to ancestors. After the Tang Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival gradually declined, and it became a continuous festival tradition to sweep the tombs and worship ancestors on the Qingming Festival. The great poet of the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi, "Cold Food and Wild Wangyin" poem cloud:

The black magpie is noisy and faint trees, who is crying in Qingming cold food? The wind blows the paper money in the wilderness, and the ancient tombs are full of spring grass and green. The pear blossoms reflect the poplar trees, and they are all life and death.

The desert heavy spring cried and didn't listen, and Xiao Xiao returned in the twilight. "The Song Dynasty poet Gao Juqing also described in a poem:"There are many cemeteries on the north and south hills, and the Qingming Festival sweeps each other.

Paper ashes fly into white butterflies, tears and blood stain red cuckoos. On the sunset fox sleeping mound, a drop of He has been to Jiuquan! "Even in today's society, people still have the custom of going to the grave to sweep the grave and worship their ancestors before and after the Qingming Festival

Remove weeds, place offerings, offer incense and prayers at the grave, burn paper money and gold ingots, or simply offer a bouquet of flowers to express the memory of the deceased.

Shoot willows

Willow shooting is a game of practicing archery skills. According to the records of the Ming Dynasty, it is to put the pigeon in the gourd, and then hang the gourd high on the willow tree, bend the bow to shoot the gourd, the pigeon flies out, and the victory is determined by the height of the flying pigeon.

Cockfighting

In ancient times, the game of cockfighting was popular in the Qingming Dynasty, and the cockfighting began during the Qingming Festival and ended with the summer solstice. The earliest record of cockfighting in China can be found in "Zuo Biography". In the Tang Dynasty, cockfighting became a common practice, not only folk cockfighting, but even the emperor also participated in cockfighting. For example, Tang Xuanzong liked cockfighting the most.

Qingming Festival is not a ghost festival. July 14 is Halloween.

The 14th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is called the "Ghost Festival", and the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the traditional festival of our Chinese folk "Zhongyuan Festival".

The atmosphere of the "14 July" celebration among the people in the two Guangxi areas is quite strong, and it is a major festival for many people to spread the solar terms. The time of the festival is noon, and in many places in Guangdong and Guangxi, ducks are used to worship ancestors.

According to legend, the duck is a spiritual creature that crosses the river with the souls of its ancestors, and the duck is killed for the festival so that it can complete this mission.

In fact, because the ducks eat a lot of grains scattered in the fields in the "June field" (that is, the early harvest season), they grow fat and full of meat, and it is the time to eat delicious, and after sacrificing to the ancestors, the delicious and tender duck meat can be eaten again.

1. Qingming Festival is not a ghost festival. Qingming Festival is just a handed down day to worship ancestors and weed, which is different from the Ghost Festival.

2. There is a difference between Qingming Festival and Ghost Festival. According to folk customs, there is a difference between the two major ghost festivals of Qingming and Zhongyuan, and the difference between the two is caused by the concept of yin and yang and the five elements. The deceased of the Qingming Festival is their ancestors and relatives, and the Midyear Festival is mainly to sacrifice the wandering souls and wild ghosts, throwing steamed buns, burning paper, putting river lanterns, chanting scriptures, and exceeding these unworshipped souls.

The Ghost Festival not only refers to the Qingming Festival, but also refers to the four festivals of the Shangsi Festival (March 3), the Qingming Festival, the Zhongyuan Festival and the Winter Clothes Festival in some places in China, which are collectively called the "Four Ghost Festivals". It is generally believed that July 15 is the first day of Halloween, and it is also the day when the ghost door is wide open, and the yin atmosphere is the heaviest at this time, so it is best not to go out on the street that night.

Halloween Festival is a collective term, in addition to the Qingming Festival, it also includes the Si Festival (March 3), the Midyear Festival, and the Winter Clothes Festival.

Halloween is a traditional holiday, and while remembering to remember your loved ones, you must also remember to wait until the paper money is burned before leaving, so as not to cause a fire.

Avoid bringing red rope oaks, bells, wind chimes, etc. on Halloween, and try to avoid going out as much as possible.