Why is July 14 Halloween?

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 the 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, this month is considered to be an unlucky month, neither marrying nor moving. The festival of July 14 is more complicated, which is not only the folk ghost festival, but also the Taoist mid-year festival, the Buddhist Obon festival, and the integration of monks and monks. Taoism has the so-called heavenly officials, earth officials, and water officials, collectively known as the three officials, these three are the representatives of the Jade Emperor stationed in the world, and they have to investigate the good and evil in the world every year and report to the heavens.

The three officials are respectively on the tenth day of the first month.

May, July 10.

May and October 15 are birthdays, and these three days are also called three yuan.

Halloween Festival. On July 15th, called Zhongyuan, it was the time for the forgiveness of sins in the local government school, and on this day, he had to take out a thick roster, according to the performance of immortals, mortals, and animals, sketch and draw, forgive sins, and exempt them from punishment.

There are two ways to say that July 14 is called Halloween:

1. July 14 of the lunar calendar every year is the Zhongyuan Festival, also known as the Ghost Festival or the Yu Lan Festival, the Yu Lan Festival means "hanging upside down" in Indian, and "hanging upside down" refers to the mother of the ten first sons of Shakya who suffered from hungry ghosts after her death and could not eat. Later, he was helped by Shakya. Offering to the gods and Buddhas of the ten directions with all kinds of fruits and saving his mother through merit.

Therefore, in order to sacrifice lonely souls, the Pudu meeting is held in the seventh month of the Ghost Lunar Calendar, which is now called the Ghost Festival.

2. About the origin of Halloween, legend has it that the mother of Jizo Bodhisattva came to the underworld after her death, and was locked in a cell and had to suffer all kinds of torture from the eighteen layers of hell, Jizo Bodhisattva is a filial son, and he couldn't bear to see his mother suffering from sin, and on the fifteenth day of July, he actually let the little ghost guarding the cell secretly open the cell door and his mother came out, who knew that it didn't matter if the prison door was opened, and the little ghosts in the cell swarmed out to the world to harm the people, so there was a saying of "seven and a half months, ghosts are running around". Those ghosts who ran back to their hometowns asked their families for money so that they could go back to live and open up their joints, hoping to take care of them as soon as possible. Later, people designated this day as Halloween.

The ancients worshipped their ancestors in the middle of July. After the development of later generations, it evolved into today's "Zhongyuan Festival" (Ghost Festival is the folk name of Tongpai, but there is actually no festival with this name).

Metaverse, also known as July and a half, July.

Ten. Fourth, the ancestor worship festival, the Bon Festival, the local official festival, the festival customs mainly include ancestor worship, river lanterns, worship of the soul, burning paper ingots, sacrificing the land, etc. "Zhongyuan Festival" is the name of Taoism, and the folk secular name is Jushengxian "July and a half" (or "July 14"), and its production can be traced back to the ancestral spirit worship and related time sacrifices in ancient times.

The festival is related to the principle of the cycle of yin and yang in ancient culture, and in the Book of Changes, "seven" is a changing number, the number of resurrection. July is the auspicious month of smiling pants, the month of filial piety, and the half of July is the festival of the folk early autumn to celebrate the harvest and reward the earth, there are a number of crops that are ripe, and the folk should worship the ancestors according to the routine, and use the new rice and other sacrifices to report the autumn to the ancestors. 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.

The 14th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, also called the seventh half of the month in our rural areas, is the traditional festival of the Midyear Festival, which is also known as the "Ghost Festival". It is another traditional sacrificial festival after the Qingming Festival; In the evening of this day, people will burn paper money for their deceased relatives to express their feelings of longing.

In the seventh lunar month.

Ten. On the fourth and fifteenth, these two days are called the Midyear Festival, which is also the middle day of the year. There will be a large number of sacrificial activities on these two days, for us rural people, we will choose to burn paper on the roadside, and people in the city will choose to burn paper money at the crossroads.

When I was a child, I was most afraid of these two nights, because the sacrificial activities of burning paper money everywhere would make this night extraordinarily dark. For me, who usually sleeps alone, every year on these two days, I choose to sleep with my mother. Maybe it's because of your timidity, or maybe it's because of your own crankiness, so you don't dare to stay alone at night.

It wasn't until I grew up that I understood that this was a traditional ritual that the fear in my heart disappeared. On the one hand, because I have grown up, my courage has become greater than before; On the other hand, because I have learned more knowledge, I understand that this is just a traditional sacrificial activity, and it does not appear as the old man in the family said.

Nowadays, with the advent of civilized sacrifices, many people have poured out their thoughts about their relatives on the Internet. For this kind of uncivilized sacrifice offline, the frequency of occurrence is also becoming less and less.

I think it's also a very good practice to open up a sacrificial ** on the Internet; Not only can you express your own thoughts, but also can leave the corresponding traces of sacrifice when you sacrifice. The next time you open the website, you can clearly see your sacrifice.

Therefore, the 14th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is also our traditional sacrificial festival, and its scientific name is Zhongyuan Festival; As the Midyear Festival is approaching, I still hope that everyone can sacrifice in a civilized manner.

Why is July 14 Halloween, you have a hole in your brain about this question, so you might as well ask yourself why you are a human and why are you not a dog.