What is the origin of the Midyear Festival? To answer 30 in detail

The fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the Midyear Festival. It is said that Taoism will set this day as the birthday of the local official, the folk in the southern region during this time to sacrifice the dead family members, the folk have "July 15 is the middle of the Yuan, the king of Yama opens the ghost gate" legend, so the middle of the year is also the ghost festival, named the middle of the yuan because of the middle time in the twenty-four solar terms.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the cosmology of Tianshi Taoism was the first to pass"Handwritten by the three officials", cast into the sky, earth, and water, indicating repentance to the three officials and asking for peace. Later, the Sanhui Day was combined with the Sanyuan Thought, and the Tang Dynasty advocated that the Shangyuan, Zhongyuan, and Xiayuan were designated as the Sanyuan Festival, and after the Tang and Song dynasties, it became a folk festival. On July 15, the Han nationality is called the Zhongyuan Festival.

The name of Zhongyuan originated in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and on the day of the seventh month, the local officials descended to determine the good and evil in the world, and the Taoist priests chanted the scriptures at night, and the prisoners of the Hunger Festival were also liberated. Buddhism also holds the transcendental Dharma on this day to save sentient beings from the suffering of hanging upside down, chanting sutras, and distributing food to lonely souls and wild ghosts, and the Midyear Festival has been handed down.

Taoist cosmology: that is, the three worlds of heaven, earth, and water, which are deified as the three realms under the jurisdiction of heavenly officials, earth officials, and water officials. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty in China, the Heavenly Master Tao advocated the Three Meetings Day.

After the development of the Six Dynasties period, the Sanhui Day was combined with the Sanyuan Thought, and the Tang Dynasty officially advocated the stereotyping of the Sanyuan Day, and the Han people called the Zhongyuan Festival on July 15 to worship the ancestors.

The Midyear Festival is a Taoist saying, which was used in ancient China.

1. The fifteenth day of July and October is called Shangyuan, Zhongyuan, and Xiayuan: Shangyuan is the day of blessing of heavenly officials, Zhongyuan is the day of forgiveness of sins by local officials, and Xiayuan is the day of relief of water officials. Therefore, it will be in the middle of the Yuan to purify the lonely soul and wild ghosts.

The origin and origin of the Midyear Festival are as follows:

Origin: In the Book of Changes"Seven"It is a changing number, a number of resurrections. I Ching:

Repeatedly, seven days back and forth, heaven and earth. "Seven is the number of yang, the number of days, after the yang between heaven and earth is extinguished, after seven days can be reborn, this is the way of heaven and earth, the principle of yin and yang cycle, the folk choose to worship their ancestors on July 14 (27)."Seven"This is related to the number of resurrections. The Taoist festival of Zhongyuan and the Buddhist festival of Obon are celebrated on July 15.

Origin:"Half of July"Originally, it was a folk ancestor worship festival in ancient times, and it was called"Midyear Festival", is derived from the Eastern Han Dynasty after Taoism. Buddhism calls it the seventh and a half months"Obon"。

In a certain sense, the July Half Ancestor Festival belongs to the folk secular, the Zhongyuan Festival belongs to Taoism, and the Obon Festival belongs to Buddhism.

Zhongyuan Festival is the name of Taoism, the folk and secular are called the seventh and a half months, and the Buddhism is called the Bon Festival.

The festival customs mainly include worshipping ancestors, releasing river lanterns, worshipping the souls of the dead, burning paper ingots, sacrificing land, etc. Its birth can be traced back to the worship of ancestral spirits 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.

The festival is also known as the "Ghost Festival", and it is said that this day is the day when the hell is opened, and the deceased ancestors can go home for reunion, so it is also a ghost festival.

Half of July"Originally, it was a folk ancestor worship festival in ancient times, and it was called"Midyear Festival", is derived from the Eastern Han Dynasty after Taoism.

The meaning of Zhongyuan extends from the Lantern Festival. In ancient times, the first full moon of the first lunar month was called Shangyuan (hence the Lantern Festival was also called Shangyuan Festival), July was the middle of the year, and the first full moon of July was called Zhongyuan because this is the name of the festival.

Midyear is often referred to as Halloween. Traditional festivals. The fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is also the fourteenth day of the seventh month.

On this day, every family worships their ancestors, and some even hold a family banquet as a ritual salute. The three tours of wine show that after the ancestral feast, the family will sit together and eat a festive meal together. After dark, bring firecrackers, paper money, incense and candles, find a secluded riverside or pond flat land, sprinkle a circle of lime, and mark the forbidden place.

Then pour some water and rice into the circle, burn some paper money, set off firecrackers, and send the ancestors on the road, turning to the "underworld". In the past, the ghosts of their ancestors would be brought home by some kind of ritual on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, and tea and food would be served to them three times a day in the morning, noon and evening, and they would not be returned until July 15. Now, gradually getting rid of the feudal color, the form of sacrifice is retained, as a memory and commemoration of the ancestors.

The midyear festival is scheduled on the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, commonly known as the seventh half of the month. Legend has it that on that day, all the ghosts were released from the underworld, and people generally held ghost worship activities. Every family with a new funeral goes to a new grave, but in general, the ghosts are worshiped locally.

As a result, it is the largest ghost festival in China, centered around the worship of ghosts.

The ritual used by Buddhists to celebrate the festival is called "Obon-kai", and the celebration is not only to pay homage to deceased loved ones, but also to commemorate Mulene as a day for Buddhists to praise his filial piety.

The story of Mu Lian's rescue of her mother is from the "Tripitaka Sutra" (Buddhism introduced from India, according to the record of the "Tripitaka Sutra", after Mu Lian experienced a lot of hardships in the underworld, he saw his dead mother Liu Siniang being tortured by a group of hungry ghosts, Mu Lian used a bowl to fill the vegetable rice for her to eat, but the vegetable rice was taken away by the hungry ghosts. Muren asked the Buddha for help, and the Buddha was moved by Muren's filial piety and granted the Bon Sutra. As instructed, on July 15, she offered her mother a vegetarian meal with a bowl of Bon fruits, and her starving mother finally got food.

In order to commemorate the filial piety of Meren, Buddhists have a grand "Bon Festival" every year.

Taoists believe that from the beginning of the seventh lunar month, the underworld opens the door of ghosts and releases lonely souls and wild ghosts to the world to receive sacrifices. In order to avoid the interference and harm of ghosts and gods, the "Zhongyuan Pudu" was set up on July 15 to offer food and burn dead paper to appease those ownerless and lonely souls.

"Half of July"Originally, it was a folk ancestor worship festival in ancient times, and it was called"Midyear Festival", is derived from the Eastern Han Dynasty after Taoism.

According to legend, every year from the first day of July, the king of Hades ordered the gates of hell to be opened, so that those who suffer and be imprisoned in hell all year round can get out of hell, get a short-term wandering, and enjoy the blood and food of the world, so people call July the ghost month, and this month is regarded as an inauspicious month, neither marrying nor moving.

Every year on the 14th and 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the Yu Lan Festival, also known as the Midyear Festival, the Seventh Half or the Ghost Festival, in the past, in addition to worshiping their ancestors on this night, people also prepared some dishes, wine, rice, gold and silver clothes and paper to the intersection to worship the ghosts and gods.

July 14 and 15 of the lunar calendar is the largest festival in the underworld--- Ghost Festival, also known as the Midyear Festival or Obon Festival, is one of the three important festivals in the underworld in China. There is a folk legend that the Lantern Festival is celebrated in the yang world and the ghost festival is celebrated in the underworld. It is said that on that day, the king of Hades would also spend the festival with the demons in full costume, and let the living people bless them together, wishing the people of the other world to have their wishes come true and enjoy the happiness that they have not had time to enjoy in this world.

Therefore, many local boundaries in our country will hold activities such as sacrifices, Buddha visits, tomb cleaning, review, flower viewing, and fishing.

Halloween originated from the story of Mulian saving his mother: "There are monks who have Mulian, and the magic is magnificent." His mother fell into the path of hungry ghosts, and when the food was entered, it turned into flames, and the hunger was too great.

Mulian was unable to save his mother, so he sought advice from the Buddha and taught him to make a Bon on July 15 to save his mother. It is said that after experiencing a lot of hardships in the underworld, Mulian saw his dead mother Liu and found that she was being tortured by a group of hungry ghosts. Muren had no choice but to ask the Buddha for help, and the Buddha was moved by Muren's filial piety and granted him the Bon Sutra.

According to the instructions, on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, Muren offered his mother a vegetarian meal with a Bon Shengguo vegetarian fast. The starving mother finally got food. To commemorate Meren's filial piety, Buddhists have a grand "Bon Festival" every year, which we now call "Halloween".

The Zhongyuan Festival, commonly known as the Ghost Festival, the Seventh Half Festival, Shi Gu, the Diguan Festival or the Zhai Gu, is the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year (July 14 in some areas), and the Shangyuan Festival and the Lower Yuan Festival are collectively called Sanyuan. It is a traditional cultural festival that is popular in countries with Chinese character culture and overseas Chinese areas.

The name of "Zhongyuan" originated in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the Zhongyuan Festival is also known as the "Ghost Festival" or "Menglan Bon Festival". According to the records of the Five Miscellaneous Scriptures: "The Tao Sutra takes the fifteenth day of the first month as the upper yuan, the fifteenth day of the seventh month as the middle yuan, and the fifteenth day of the tenth month as the lower yuan."

The practice record says: "On the first day of the seventh month, the local officials descended to determine the good and evil in the world, and the Taoist priests recited the sutras at night, and the prisoners of the Hunger Festival were also liberated. ”

Buddhism also holds a transcendental puja on this day, called "Yalan Mana" (ullambana in Hindi), or "Menglan Meeting". The meaning of the Mon Lan basin is to hang upside down. 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 move coincided with the Chinese Ghost Moon Worship, so the Midyear Festival and the Menglan Festival were handed down at the same time.

On the midyear festival, all the ghosts were released from the prefecture on that day, and the people generally carried out activities to worship ghosts. Whenever there is a new mourner, for example, to go to the new grave, and generally in the local sacrifice of lonely souls and wild ghosts, so it is a festival centered on worshipping ghosts, and it has become the largest ghost festival in Chinese folk. July 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.

The first volume of the Song Mengyuan's "Tokyo Menghualu" said: "The day before the Middle Yuan Dynasty, I bought Lian Ye, lined the table during the ceremony, and bought Ma Gu Nest, which was also tied to the foot of the table, which was the meaning of telling the ancestors in autumn. "In July, the crops are ripe, and the Chinese who pay attention to filial piety have to report to the ancestors and ask the ancestors to taste the new, so they routinely sacrifice to the ancestors in July.