What is the festival on July 15th and what is the holiday on July 15th?

The meaning of the midyear festival on July 15 is also known as the Ghost Festival, the Day of the Dead, and the half of the moon. The fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the Midyear Festival. Ancestor worship activities are widely carried out among the people.

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 when burning, the mouth will keep chanting: so-and-so to get the money.

In the end, a bunch of them were burned outside the circle, saying that they were burned for lonely souls and wild ghosts. On the day when the deceased go back, both rich and poor must cook a good meal to honor the deceased, and it is also called sending the dead.

The fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the Obon Festival, also known as the Midyear Festival, commonly known as the Ghost Festival and Shi Gu. The meaning of Zhongyuan is extended from the Lantern Festival. In ancient times, the first full moon of the first month was called Shangyuan (so the Lantern Festival is also called Shangyuan Festival), July is the middle of the year, and the first full moon day of July is called Zhongyuan, because it is the name of the festival.

July 15th is the Midyear Festival. There are three traditional festivals in our country to worship ancestors in a year, one is the Qingming Festival, the second is the Zhongyuan Festival, and the third is the first day of October.

The folk believe that in the middle of July, the ancestors will return to the yang world to visit the descendants of the descendants, so every household will invite the ancestors to come out on this day, put it on the offering table, and light incense, and provide food and tea for three meals a day. Its production can be traced back to the worship of ancestral spirits in ancient times and related time sacrifices.

On July 15, the people also worshiped the land and crops. Scatter the offerings into the field. After burning the paper, the five-colored paper cut into strips is used and wound around the ears of the crop.

Legend has it that you can avoid hail and get a good autumn harvest. Offering sacrifices during the Midyear Festival is often associated with praying for a good harvest. On the night of Shi Gu, every household burns incense in front of their house to pray for a good harvest of rice, and inserts incense sticks on the ground, which is called "cloth field" (rice planting), and the more planted the better, to symbolize the harvest of rice in the autumn.

July 15 is the Zhongyuan Festival, which is the name of Taoism, and the folk secular name is called July and a half, and the seventh month.

Ten. Fourth, the ancestor festival, 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. 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. Buddhism calls the seventh half of the month "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.

Every year on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, it is the traditional ancestor worship festival in China - the Zhongyuan Festival.

On the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the Han people called the Shangyuan Festival, which is the Lantern Festival, the ancient people have been careful to argue with the old, on the fifteenth day of July, the Han people called the Zhongyuan Festival, sacrificing the ancestors, and on the fifth day of October, the Han people called the Xia Yuan Festival, which is to eat cold food, and to order 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 midyear festival is also known as the ghost festival, and Buddhism is called the Menglan Bon festival, which is half a month of July. It is called the three major ghost festivals in ancient China together with the Cold Food Festival and the Qingming Festival, and the sacrificial activities are mainly held on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year, but the time is not fixed.

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 mourner, they have to go to a new grave, and generally sacrifice to the lonely souls and wild ghosts in the place.

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.

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 time the Zhongyuan Hanwu Festival, every family sacrifices to their ancestors, and they perform rituals when they are worshipped. People sincerely express their gratitude to their ancestors, and express their most sincere memories and thoughts, so that the ancestors who return to the family know the respect and hospitality of the family to him, and thus report the harvest to the ancestors.

The meaning of the midyear festival:

On the day of the Midyear Festival, even those who do not believe in ghosts and gods will pray for the blessing of their ancestors, although people do not believe in the existence of ghosts and gods in the world, but they believe that nature has mysterious power, is a sentient and spiritual life, awe will be rewarded, maintain a heart of awe and get along with nature, and what will be obtained will be equal respect between the two and the harmony of all things.

Human beings have only borrowed a place from nature and been given a period of time to appear and exist in the form of life, and enjoy the sweetness of life, and it is in this place, during this time, that animals, plants, thunder, lightning, mountains and rivers are accompanied by human beings, so it is indispensable for people to be in awe of nature and the life forms that exist.

1. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, Taoism is called the Zhongyuan Festival, Buddhism is called the Yu Lan Festival, and the folk used to be called the Ghost Festival.

2. The Midyear Festival is a Taoist saying that it is boring and said 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.

Zhongyuan Festival - the traditional Chinese folk festival "Zhongyuan Festival" on July 15 of the lunar calendar.

3. In the south, it is also known as "Halloween". It is also said that the Chinese Metaverse Festival is on July 14 of the lunar calendar. On the day of the festival, people bring sacrifices to the grave to pay tribute to their ancestors, which is similar to going to the grave on the Qingming Festival.

In the feudal era, the local government also ordered the monks and Taoists of the temple to set up a cover to destroy the lonely soul dojo to pay tribute to the soldiers who died in battle, and during the Midyear Festival, people would burn a large amount of paper money. Another name for it is Obon.