Why is the Zhongyuan Festival not famous as the Qingming Festival? An analysis of the reasons why th

The 15th day of July in the lunar calendar is China's traditional festival, the Zhongyuan Festival, also known as the 'Ghost Festival', which has the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors. However, Qingming Festival, which is also a traditional festival, has been established as a legal traditional holiday in China, and its status and importance in people's hearts are far higher than that of Zhongyuan Festival. What's going on? The editor of this article will tell you why the Zhongyuan Festival is not as famous as the Qingming Festival.

among the three Ghost Festivals, only Qingming Festival was officially established as a legal holiday in 2008, and the other two are gradually forgotten. Even without the blessing of legal holidays, Qingming Festival has always been better than the latter two in its civil status and reputation. Most of the time, the latter two are silent in local areas or the memory of the elderly, rather than the unified folk festivals of the Han nationality.

1. Lack of a widely circulated story

When it comes to Chang'e running to the moon, Qu Yuan throwing into the river and the industrious and kind-hearted ancient people's war animals, you can't imagine the festivals they represent. You want to stand out from many festivals. A good story is like a good sign, which is conducive to the spread and survival of the Festival. The story of "Mulian saving his mother" in the Yulan basin Festival is not a bad story, but because it is not included in the ancient Chinese mythological system and is closely related to religion, its scope of spread is limited.

2. Overlap with other festival functions

The appearance of the Qingming Festival is earlier than the Zhongyuan Festival, and there is a familiar poem "rain in succession during the Qingming Festival", so people have long known that the Qingming Festival has the custom of sacrificing ancestors.