Is the Double Ninth Festival for the immortal family or for the ghost realm?

The Double Ninth Festival is neither for the immortals, nor for the ghosts.

Chung Yeung Festival is a festival of our nation.

Yang Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, which is held on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year. The number "nine" is a yang number in the Book of Changes, and the two yang numbers of "ninety-nine" are overlapping, so it is called "double yang"; Because the sun and the moon are all nine, it is also called "heavy nine". The ancients believed that the Double Ninth Festival was an auspicious day.

In ancient times, people had the customs of climbing high to pray for blessings, enjoying chrysanthemums in autumn, wearing dogwoods, worshipping gods and ancestors, and drinking feasts and praying for longevity during the Double Ninth Festival. Inherited so far, it has added connotations such as respect for the elderly, and enjoyed a banquet on the day of Chongyang to be grateful and respect for the elderly. Climbing to appreciate autumn and thanksgiving and respecting the elderly are the two important themes of today's Chung Yeung Festival activities.

The Double Ninth Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena, which began in ancient times, popularized in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished after the Tang Dynasty. According to the existing historical materials and research, in ancient times, there were activities to worship the heavens and ancestors in the autumn season; Included in "Lü's Spring and Autumn Season", the ancients sacrificed to the Emperor and their ancestors during the harvest of crops in September, in order to thank the Emperor and their ancestors for their kindness. This is the original form of Chung Yeung Festival as an autumn harvest festival.

The Tang Dynasty was an important period when traditional festivals and customs were blended and finalized, and the main part of it has been passed down to the present day. The folk custom of worshiping ancestors in Chongyang has been along for thousands of years, and it is an ancient folk custom with profound significance. Chongyang Festival, together with Chinese New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival and July and a half, is known as the four traditional Chinese ancestor festivals.

In the course of historical development and evolution, the Chung Yeung Festival blends a variety of folk customs into one, carrying rich cultural connotations. In the folk concept, "nine" is the largest number in the number, which has the meaning of longevity and longevity, and entrusts people's blessings for the health and longevity of the elderly. On May 20, 2006, the Chung Yeung Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.

In 2012, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress revised and passed the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly, which stipulates that the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the Elderly Day every year.

Chung Yeung Festival is a festival for those who travel far away to miss their hometown! It is also the beautiful expectation and longing of the elderly for life!

September 9 is the New Year of the Immortal Family, and March 3 is the New Year, which is the same as our Spring Festival, and has nothing to do with ghosts.

On this day, burn more incense, make offerings, organize the release of animals, do charity, give medicine, and help the disadvantaged.

From a macro point of view, all sentient beings are originally Buddhas, and it is not necessary to say that sentient beings are the degradation of Buddhas.

In the Buddhist Sutra of the Beginning, it is recorded that sentient beings gradually degenerate from immortals in the light and sound of heaven to ordinary people.

No, Buddhism was originally meat-eating, and the founder, Shakyamuni (the Buddha in Journey to the West), also ate meat.

The rule set by Shakyamuni for the monks is to hold a bowl and turn into a relationship, and in the Buddhist scriptures, it is called begging (to put it bluntly, it is to eat), if you want to be vegetarian, you will eat vegetarian food, and if you want to come to meat, you will eat meat.

Now the monks of primitive Buddhism still adhere to the rules of karma.

In the "Great Dai Li Ji" compiled by Dai De of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it says...."Eating meat is brave and fierce, eating grain is wise and skillful. This is the theory that a vegetarian diet can improve wisdom, which can be found in the earliest ancient texts in our country.

This theory is very important to young intellectuals, but it is a pity that later advocates vegetarianism mostly based on karma and abstaining from killing and nursing students, and few people study the principle of "vegetarian wisdom", which misses the opportunity of many people to be vegetarian. In modern times, Dr. Yuo Hirayama of the National Institute of Public Health of Japan found that vegetarians have a weak appetite and meat eaters have a strong appetite; Vegetarians are sane, meat-eaters are sanity; Vegetarians are mentally quick, and meat eaters are neurologically dull ....... His discovery coincides with the ancient wisdom of vegetarian food in China.

**…Orthodox Buddhism Network.

Taoism is a religion, China's own domestic religion, is a sect founded by Lao Tzu after enlightenment, intended to tell people the truth and truth of the realization of people's ignorance (return to the truth), and also said a lot of principles and methods to help people cultivate and return to the Tao, get rid of falsehood and pain, and return to the basics.

Buddhism began in India and was founded by another sage, Shakyamuni Buddha, who taught people how to get rid of false suffering and return to the truth, but in a different way (but with the same nature).

Because the teachings of the two religions are different, the corresponding groups of people are also different (this is like two different medicines, only the quality of the symptoms, but not the level of the medicine), for which religion people believe, it depends on what disease you have (this is called fate).

Confucianism should be the most widely promoted in China, but Confucianism is not a religion (it is only teaching, it is education, teaching, there is no sect), and the domestic religion must also belong to Taoism (Buddhism was introduced later, not domestic).

If you want to know the specific content of Taoism, you must study deeply to know, you must know that what these saints preached is the truth of the universe, and the truth is not a myth (the way to use mythology is the method of educating those "children" who do not understand reason) and not superstition (superstition is self-delusion, and belief is born after seeing miraculous phenomena, but does not understand the inner profound truth, the name is superstition).

Because Taoism does not promote gangs and factions.

Taoism, every Chinese national, inherited to the present, as long as he does not join other sects - he is a Taoist and a goddaughter.

Taoism is a traditional religion in China, the heyday of the development of Taoism, is the Sui and Tang dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty, the primitive Taoist stage, represented by the Five Bucket Rice Dao and the Taiping Dao. The Tao is mainly based on the "Tao" as the highest belief, and the emphasis is on the "Tao Law and Nature", in other words, a cold way of saying is: love to believe or not, don't believe in it, don't bother me to cultivate immortals and ask.

It is precisely because of the cold and casual nature of Taoism that it has a small number of followers compared to other popular Buddhism, and it is also due to factors such as sects and regions, that various Taoist organizations are only short-lived.

Taoism is a native religion of China, with Lao Tzu that is, Taishang Laojun as the ancestor, although it has also been passed down for thousands of years, but it is gradually declining, and the reasons for analyzing it are at least the following:

First, the teachings of Taoism are not broad and profound enough, the classics of Taoism are the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu and the Zhuangzi of Zhuang Zhou, and the classic teachings are more about the attitude towards life, and do not cover the main aspects of society, such as birth, old age, sickness and death.

Second, the transmission route is not extensive enough. Because Taoism is more about requiring birth, that is, staying away from the world, it is more like the lofty self-esteem of literati and scholars, unlike Buddhism, which is to purify sentient beings, and the spread of objects and followers is not wide enough.

Third, there are also problems in adapting to social development. Although Taoism has also had its glory, for example, in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the royal family regarded Taoism as orthodoxy, and the governance of the country was also governed by Lao Zhuang's inaction. However, the rulers of later generations should strengthen the imperial power, this philosophy is obviously not applicable, and Taoism, due to its own limitations, did not revise and expand the doctrine in time, but embarked on the oblique road of fortune-telling and fortune-telling and pretending to be gods and ghosts, which further narrowed its own development space, and this space will gradually compress with social progress and scientific development until it dies out.

It may be because compared with Taoism, Buddhism has a more in-depth discussion of the proposition of "death", and has a more complete theory of the past, present, and future time and space, which meets the needs of people's fear of unknown time and space, while the pursuit of immortality in Taoism is too ethereal.

Buddhism advocated enduring suffering in order to practice, which facilitated the ruler's rule over the people, and was therefore admired by successive ruling classes.

The school of Zen Buddhism, which developed in China after the sinicization of Buddhism, believed that people could become Buddhas by themselves, which lowered the threshold for spiritual practice and was welcomed by people.

The threshold of Taoism is higher than that of other religions.

Seeking a higher level, it is generally a level of cultivation to enter the Dao. Do a Taoist ritual from music.

Instruments, magic instruments, stepping on the gang, personnel and other processes are much more complicated. Generally, the Taoist master must be able to play the piano, chess, calligraphy and painting at the elementary level, and the higher the cultivation, the higher the requirements. Reciting some Taoist classics is not recited by ordinary beginners without the Taoist master to pass on the scriptures and oral transmission, some chapters cannot be pronounced sound, and there are many, many rules.

Because basically Chinese will believe in Taoism.

Because Taoism does not deceive people, does not fool people, and does not want you to donate incense money. And Buddhism fools people every day to go to the light, eat fasting, recite the Buddha, donate incense money. If you don't believe it, you go to a temple and donate 10,000 yuan, you are a layman, you go to the Taoist temple to donate money to see if others want it!

I believe that you have seen a lot of monks on the road of the so-called fate, have you seen the Taoist? In troubled times, Taoist priests came out of the mountains to help the world, and Taoist priests in prosperous times practiced in seclusion. What about Buddhism?

Chairman Shi Yongxin runs every day to pick up and drop off, and he makes money everywhere! In addition, more than 80% of the Han people in China are Taoist believers, and most of the traditional solar terms on holidays are related to Taoism, and all understandings from birth to marriage to death are inseparable from Taoist culture.

Taoism lacks humanistic care for the poor people, loses its mass base, and Taoism cannot define the core Tao, loses its distinctive characteristics, and advocates inaction and modesty, so it cannot become the standard-bearer of social progress. So it didn't make much of a difference.

Those who study the Tao Te Ching do not necessarily have to enter Taoism.

After all, most of the followers of Taoism are in China.

Cultivation is relatively hard, and ordinary people are unwilling.

Those who have cultivated the Tao have left a scripture, but people can't understand it. If you don't meet the Master, practice the Tao in vain. This is the most fundamental reason for the decline of Taoism. Tao is a great blessing in China, and the Chinese people should use it well, don't pollute it.

Because it is all the result of the leader of the pig-headed squad.

Support the development of local Taoism and promote traditional Chinese culture.

There is no doubt that it is Buddhism, and Shakyamuni Buddha had long predicted that after his nirvana, the Dharma would disappear in India and move to the East.

Taoism is a religion native to China.