Where is the ghost market of the legendary Midyear Festival?

Do you need to buy something in a ghost market? Can things from the underworld be used in the yang?

On the evening of the 14th day of the lunar calendar (23:59), that is, in the early morning of the 15th day of the seventh month (00:00).

Sunset sunset sunset sea view.

The ghost door of the Midyear Festival is closed in**?

In Feng Shui theory, the Ghost Gate occupies a very important position. In the field survey of home feng shui, the position of 45 degrees in the northeast is the outer ghost door, and the position of 45 degrees in the southwest is the inner ghost door.

The place in the house where the oak sun does not shine all the time, or where the sun is difficult to see, is the 45-degree range of the northeast and southwest corners. It is considered to be a cold and damp region, and there are a lot of taboos about Feng Shui here. If you don't pay attention, you will be evil, which is more appropriate than bad luck.

Southwestern. The "Xun" of the innate gossip is in the southwest, and the "Kun" of the acquired gossip is in the southwest. Kun Yao is pure yin, and Xun Yao also belongs to yin.

The intersection of the two yin hexagrams is the place of yin and hexagram, so the southwest is the heaviest position of Yin Qi. In folklore, the soul of a person returns to the southwest after death, and the spiritualist rites of ancient funerals are held in the southwest. For example, the ghost city of Yufengdu is also located in the Sichuan-Chongqing region of southwest China, and in Taoist magic, southwest Wei Kun is directly defined as the door of death.

Sunset view. Are there ghosts in the midyear?

According to traditional customs, there are ghosts on the day of the midyear festival. On the day of the Midyear Festival, Lord Yama will also give all the ghosts a holiday. When the ghost door is wide open, all the ghosts are their nests, and they come to this world for vacation. Therefore, it is taboo to go out at night during the Midyear Festival.

From the perspective of Nohashi science, there are no ghosts in the midyear festival, and ghost theory belongs to folk superstition and does not exist.

However, there is no accurate statement about whether there are ghosts in the midyear festival. Ghost deism has always been a belief and no faith.

The mid-year festival, commonly known as the Ghost Festival, the seventh half of the month, Buddhism called the Bon Festival, the mid-year festival is on the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and some of them are also passed on the 14th day of July.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Taoism set the three meetings and five wax days, of which July 7 is the moral wax, and it is the day when the Taoists go to the Zhizhi to receive the examination, and this ancestor worship custom in July is later set on July 15 with Taoism to set the birthday of the Zhongyuan local official and the corresponding sacrifice date on July 15, and then fixed on this day.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, the Han nationality called the Shangyuan Festival, which is to celebrate the Lantern Festival, which has been in ancient times; On July 15, the Han nationality called the Zhongyuan Festival, sacrificing to the ancestors; On October 15, the Han nationality called the Xia Yuan Festival, which is to eat cold food and commemorate the sages.

The traditional "Midyear Festival" is on the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. Originated from Buddhist classics, it is said that Mu Lian saw her deceased mother in the underworld who was entangled by hungry ghosts and could not eat, so she asked the Buddha for help, and the Buddha felt his filial piety and granted the "Obon Sutra", allowing him to set up a vegetarian feast for his mother to enjoy on July 15 every year, and passed it on after the stupidity, and then became the tradition of "Obon".

Buddhism originated in India, but "Mulian saves her mother" is obviously a legend after Sinicization, because Mulian's mother's surname is "Liu".

The "Obon Festival" was carried by Emperor Wu of Liang during the time of Emperor Wu of Liang, and it was finalized and matured in the Song Dynasty. This festival was later used by Taoism, and became the "Earth Official Festival" in the Three Officials (i.e., Heavenly Officials, Earth Officials, and Water Officials) Festival, and the Earth Officials were in charge of hell, so people wore and said: This day is a day when the leaders are on holiday, and Hell is unguarded, so the deceased in the underworld will return to the world along the light of the Milky Way.

Therefore, every household puts river lanterns, in order to continue the road of the Milky Way in front of people and welcome the heroic spirits of their ancestors. Therefore, the Midyear Festival is also called the "Ghost Festival".

Midyear taboo:

1. Wind chimes are hung at the head of the bed, wind chimes are easy to attract ghosts, and sleeping is the most easily invaded moment.

2. Night tours, people with light characters try not to travel at night.

3. Burn dead paper on non-specific occasions.

4. Don't steal sacrifices, these chaotic companions are food for ghosts.

5. Do not step on the paper, the paper is a sacrifice to the ghosts.

The origin of Halloween is as follows:

1. Regarding the origin of Halloween, legend has it that Jizo Bodhisattva, that is, people often say that the Lord of Yama, came to the underworld of the Yin Dynasty after his mother died, 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 flocked out and ran to the world to harm the people. That's why there is a saying that the ghosts are running around in July.

2. 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 name "Zhongyuan" originated in the Northern Wei Dynasty and is a Taoist saying.

According to ancient records: the Tao Sutra takes the fifteenth day of the first month as "Shangyuan", which is the blessing day for heavenly officials; July 15 is the "Zhongyuan", which is the day of forgiveness of sins by local officials; October 15 is the "next yuan", which is the day of relief for water officials. According to the "Cultivation Record", it is recorded

On the first day of the seventh month, the local officials descended to determine the good and evil in the world, and the Taoist priest recited the sutra at night, and the prisoners of the Hunger Festival were also liberated. Therefore, on the 15th day of the seventh month, the people will prepare rich sacrifices to worship the emperor and their ancestors.

The Zhongyuan Festival is the product of the combination of Taoism and traditional Chinese folk customs, and the two can correspond, mainly based on the same 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. The folk commonly known as the "Three Realms Gong" refers to the gods of the Three Realms in terms of the three officials.

Activities

Every July, there will be a grand celebration of the people, and the celebration of Chung Yuan can be seen all over the country, whether it is in the commercial area or HDB area'Red paper, lanterns, set up an altar to reward the gods. The "Pudu" ceremony is the most important part of the Midyear Festival, which can be roughly divided into street Pudu, city Pudu, temple Pudu, etc., Pudu based on neighborhoods is called "Street Pu", Pudu based on the market is called "City Pu", and Pudu by the temple abbot is called "Temple Pu".

Pudu is usually centered around the temple, and the nearby residents bring their offerings to the temple to worship, and many people set up offering tables in front of their homes, display offerings, and hang paper lamps under the eaves.