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​&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203; After the beginning of the autumn solar term, it means that autumn has officially arrived. The Zhongyuan festival will be ushered in in a few days. So which day is the Zhongyuan Festival this year? What is the Zhongyuan Festival? This article brings you the time and festival profile of this year's Zhongyuan Festival. Let's have a look.

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Zhongyuan Festival, also known as' July festival or Yulan basin Festival ', is one of the three Ghost Festivals. Zhongyuan Festival is a Taoist saying. The name of Zhongyuan comes from the Northern Wei Dynasty. In some places, it is commonly known as ghost festival, Shi Gu, also known as dead people's day and July and a half. According to ancient books, the 15th day of the first month is the upper yuan, the 15th day of July is the middle yuan, and the 15th day of October is the lower yuan.

China has believed in ghosts and gods since the Shang Dynasty. Although in their belief, in addition to human ghosts, there are gods and earth, but they take 'human ghosts' as the central belief.

Zhongyuan festival opening type: Chinese traditional festival

Zhongyuan Festival, commonly known as ghost festival, Shi Gu and July and a half, is called Yulan basin festival in Buddhism. The three festivals, new year's Eve, Qingming Festival and Double Ninth Festival, are not only Chinese traditional ancestor worship festivals, but also traditional cultural festivals popular in various countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. On the Zhongyuan Festival, there is the custom of putting river lanterns and burning paper ingots.

The 15th day of the first lunar month, known as the Shangyuan Festival, celebrates the Lantern Festival, which has existed since ancient times; July 15 is called the Zhongyuan festival to offer sacrifices to our ancestors; October 15 is called Xiayuan Festival. It is a cold food to commemorate the sages. The Zhongyuan Festival falls on July 15 of the lunar calendar and in some areas on July 14.

The Mid Autumn Festival was originally a small Autumn Festival. There were a number of mature crops. As a rule, people should worship their ancestors and offer sacrifices such as new rice to report the autumn success to their ancestors. Therefore, every time it comes to the Zhongyuan Festival, families offer sacrifices to their ancestors and salute like an instrument. On the 15th of July, I went to the grave to sweep the grave and worship my ancestors. Overseas Chinese will send silver during the four festivals of Qingming, Zhongyuan, winter solstice and niandou. Otherwise, they will be regarded as disrespectful to their ancestors, unfilial to their elders and irresponsible to their wives.

It is said that all ghosts will be released in the underworld on the day of the Yuan Festival, and people generally offer sacrifices to ghosts. Every family with a new funeral, for example, has to go to a new grave. Generally, it has to sacrifice lonely souls and wild ghosts locally, which has become one of the largest sacrificial festivals among Chinese people.

Introduction to Zhongyuan Festival

Zhongyuan Festival is commonly known as ghost festival. Traditional folk festivals. It is on July 15 of the lunar calendar and also on July 14. On this day, families offer sacrifices to their ancestors, and some even hold family banquets. When they offer sacrifices, they salute like an instrument. Sprinkling wine for three rounds means that after the ancestral banquet, the family will sit together and have a holiday dinner. After the blackout, take firecrackers, paper money and incense candles, find a secluded riverside or pond flat ground, and sprinkle a circle with lime to indicate the restricted area. Then pour some rice and water in the circle, burn some paper money, set off firecrackers, send our ancestors on the road and return to the 'underworld'. In the past, people had to take the ghosts of their ancestors home through a certain ceremony on the seventh day of July. They provided tea and meals three times a day in the morning, afternoon and dusk until they were returned on July 15. Now, the superstitious color is gradually eliminated and the form of sacrifice is retained as the memory and commemoration of our ancestors.

The Zhongyuan Festival is scheduled for July 15 of the lunar calendar, commonly known as July and a half. It is said that all ghosts were released from the underground on that day, and people generally carried out activities to sacrifice ghosts. Every family with a new funeral, for example, has to go to a new grave, but generally it has to sacrifice lonely souls and wild ghosts locally. Therefore, it is a festival centered on the worship of ghosts, which is the largest ghost festival among Chinese people.

July used to be the autumn festival. There were some mature crops. As a rule, people should worship their ancestors, offer sacrifices such as new rice, and report the autumn success to their ancestors. Song Mengyuan's old "Tokyo dream records" said in Volume 1: the day before the mid Yuan Dynasty, I bought Lian ye (a plant leaf with aroma), lined the table when enjoying the sacrifice, and bought Ma Gu chao'er, which was also tied at the foot of the table, which told my ancestors that autumn was coming. In July, when the crops are ripe in the autumn, Chinese people who pay attention to filial piety usually report to their ancestors and invite their ancestors to taste the new, so they routinely offer sacrifices to their ancestors in July. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Taoism set three meetings and five days, of which July 7 was the moral day, and it was also the day when the central meeting, that is, the fixed Taoist people, went to the political institute for examination. The main content of the fifth lunar calendar is to offer sacrifices to ancestors. The date of ancestor worship in July was later fixed on July 15 with Taoism setting the birthday of the local officials of the central Yuan Dynasty and the corresponding date of sacrifice on this day.

The Taoist Zhongyuan Festival is not only a Taoist religious festival, but also a folk festival. At the beginning of Taoism, there was worship of three officials. The three officials of Zhengyi alliance, namely heaven, earth and water officials (also known as heaven, earth and human talents), were later called the three officials great emperor. Each of them is responsible for the division. The heavenly officials bless the upper yuan, the earth officials forgive sins for the middle yuan, and the water officials call the lower yuan solution. The Taoist book says that all these three days, the three officials should check the merits and crimes in the world to determine rewards and punishments. Of course, the focus of the inspection is the ghosts of all roads. So on this day, all ghosts will leave the underworld and accept the examination. On this day, daomen routinely set up Jiaojiao to celebrate the birthday of local officials. At the same time, believers also invested to set up Zhai to pray for the blessings of the underworld for their ancestors, ask local officials to forgive their sins and ascend to heaven as soon as possible. This is the main reason why the Zhongyuan Festival has become a folk festival.