Qingming Festival is not a ghost festival which July 14th

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, which is one of the three important festivals in the underworld in China.

Qingming Festival is not a ghost festival, but one of the 24 solar terms. Qingming is a festival to worship ancestors, and the traditional activity is tomb sweeping.

It's Halloween, and July 14 is Valentine's Day in China.

Qingming Festival is not a ghost festival, Qingming Festival, also known as the Qingqing Festival, Xingqing Festival, March Festival, ancestor worship festival, etc., the festival period is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring.

The Qingming Festival originates from the ancestral beliefs and spring rituals in ancient times, and has both natural and humanistic connotations, which is not only a natural solar term, but also a traditional festival. Tomb sweeping and ancestor worship and outing are the two major ritual themes of the Qingming Festival, and these two traditional ritual themes have been inherited in China since ancient times.

Qingming Festival is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation, which is not only a solemn festival of sweeping tombs and worshipping ancestors, but also a joyful festival for people to get close to nature, go out to play, and enjoy the fun of spring. Douzhi B (or the sun yellow longitude reaches 15 °) is the Qingming solar term, and the festival time is around April 5 in the Gregorian calendar. At this time, the vitality is vigorous, the yin qi is declining, all things "spit out the old and accept the new", and the earth presents the image of spring and scenery, which is a good season for the suburbs to go on a youth tour and perform tomb sacrifices.

The Qingming Ancestor Festival is very long, there are two sayings before and 8 days before and 10 days before and 10 days after, which are all during the Qingming Ancestor Festival in the past 20 days.

It is said that the thirteenth day of the seventh month is the king of Jizo.

On his birthday, the king of Jizo was a prince of Joseon and went to China to carry the fierce Jiuhua Mountain in China.

He became a monk and swore that "hell is not empty, and he will not become a Buddha", so he became a god in charge of hell, which is equivalent to the president of the court, and there are ten kings of Hades, who are in charge of different halls, which are equivalent to the presidents of each court under the court. Emperor Dongyue is also in charge of hell, and he doesn't know who is bigger than the King of Jizo. But there is no doubt that the Jizo king has a very high status in hell.

Because King Jizo has a birthday, the ghosts of the underworld can have a three-day holiday, and there are also seventeenth and fifteenth days in July, anyway, they are also in these three days. The calendar is marked as the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the 14th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is mostly in the Liangguang zone, and the 13th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions.

On July 13th, there is also a rule that Daqiao eats wontons. It seems that every festival is related to eating, the rice cakes on the first day of the new year, the rice balls on the fifteenth, the dumplings during the Qingming Festival, and the Dragon Boat Festival.

The rice dumplings, the moon cakes of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the porridge of Laba, until the ...... of the Chinese New Year's Eve riceBut Jiangnan does not have the custom of eating dumplings during the New Year.

Wonton doesn't know what to say, there is a saying and commemoration of Pangu.

It has something to do with opening up chaos, but it seems that July 13 has nothing to do with Pangu.

Put the river lantern, I don't know if it's also on July 13th? It is also said to be related to the pacification of the soul.

Don't go. On the 14th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, according to legend, it is the time when the ghost gate is wide open and the yin qi is heavy. Some people have always believed in the existence of ghosts, so they know a little about Halloween taboos and strictly abide by them.

You may say that "people don't commit ghosts, ghosts don't offend people", "don't do bad things in life", and don't be afraid to wait to knock on the door in the middle of the night, saying that it is a manifestation of superstition, but it is better to hold the mentality of "I would rather believe what I have than what I don't!" If you really have the misfortune to offend the spirit and cause trouble, you will regret it. In this case, it is better to be careful in the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and pay attention to the following 10 Halloween taboos, so as not to know what you are doing!

1. Hang wind chimes at the head of the bed.

Wind chimes are easy to attract good brothers, and sleeping time is the most likely time to be "invaded".

2. Night tour People who are light in eight characters must not travel at night, otherwise they will only ask for trouble.

3. Burn dead paper on non-specific occasions.

4. Stealing sacrifices.

These are the food of good brothers, and if they are used without their consent, they will only bring unsolvable bad luck for themselves.

5. Dry clothes at night.

When a good brother thinks your clothes look good, he will borrow them and wear them, leaving his smell on the clothes by the way.

6. Call your name.

Don't call out your name when you travel at night, try to be codenamed, so as not to be remembered by your good brother.

7. Swimming At this time, the good brother will play a game of ghost lifting your feet with you, and if you are not careful, your life will be carried away.

8. Random look Good brothers like to hide and be scared, in case they are scared, it is the best time for them to invade you.

9. The banyan tree is placed at the door of the house.

Because the banyan tree is a shade-gathering plant, and at the same time, it is also the favorite of good brothers, unless you want good brothers to come and sit in the house.

10. Stay up late.

The time when the popularity is the lowest is in the middle of the night, and the time when the ghost is at its peak is also in the middle of the night, in comparison, who will win.

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.