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What's the name of Zhongyuan Festival? Who is it to commemorate

Zhongyuan Festival is one of the "Ghost Festivals" in people's mouth. It's said that on this day when the ghost door is open, the ghost will come and go in and out of the sun. So on this day, people should burn paper money and never walk around outside, so as not to touch the "unclean" things. So what is the name of Zhongyuan Festival? Who is it set up to commemorate? Let's have a look.

Every year, the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the Zhongyuan festival in China. Compared with other festivals, this festival has some horrible colors, because people call Zhongyuan festival as ghost festival. Zhongyuan Festival is also called ghost festival, July half, and a few areas are also called dead man festival. It is one of the three ancient festivals, the first 15 Yuan Festival, celebrating the Lantern Festival. On the 15th of July, the central Yuan Festival, ancestor worship.

October 15 next Yuan Festival is also a cold food festival. It commemorates the mid Yuan Festival of the ancient sages on July 15 every year. It is a traditional festival of sacrifice in our country. It, together with cold food festival and Qingming Festival, is called the three major Ghost Festivals in ancient China;

Every year, the festival is mainly held on July 15 of the lunar calendar, but the time is not fixed. In the south of China, people also have the tradition of sacrificing on July 14. There are also places where ancestor worship begins at the beginning of July, where the ancestors are taken home at night, and then three meals of tea and rice are consecrated to the end of July.

According to legend, on the first day of July in the lunar calendar, the ghost door opened, and the ghost of the underworld would return to the sun to accept the sacrifice of later generations, while the ghost without sacrifice would wander around the world looking for food. People believe in ancestor worship and believe that during the middle Yuan Festival, ancestors will return to Yangjian's home to visit their descendants. Therefore, the folk will offer sacrifices to the ancestors on the mid Yuan Festival and surpass the spirits of the dead.

Who is Zhongyuan festival to commemorate

The ghost festival originates from the story of Mu Lian saving his mother: 'there are Mu Lian monks who have great magic power. In his mother's depraved and hungry ghost Road, the entrance of food turns into a flame, and the hunger is too bitter. Mu Lian was unable to save her mother, so she asked Buddha for help. In order to speak of the Yulan basin Sutra, she taught to make the Yulan basin on July 15 to save her mother. '

It is said that at that time, after experiencing a lot of hardships in the underworld, Mu Lian saw his dead mother, Liu Shi, and found that she was tortured by a group of hungry ghosts. Mu Lian wanted to use a bowl of vegetables to feed her, but the vegetables were taken away by the hungry ghosts. Mu Lian had to ask for help from the Buddha, who was moved by Mu Lian's filial piety and granted him the Yulan basin Sutra. According to the instructions, Mu Lian used the Menglan basin to hold the precious fruit vegetarian room on July 15 of the lunar calendar to worship her mother. The starving mother finally got the food.

In order to commemorate the filial piety of Mu Lian, every year Buddhists have a grand "Meng LAN pan Hui", which we now call "Ghost Festival".

Some taboos of Zhongyuan Festival:

night tour

On ghost day, people with weak eight characters should never swim at night, because the gates of ghosts are wide open and ghosts and ghosts are wandering out. If he sees you with heavy Yin, he may mistake you for a companion and invite you home as a guest.

Non specific stage burning paper

Ming paper is burned to ghost brothers, and gold paper is burned to gods. On ghost day, most people burn some paper money in advance for ghost brothers passing by, and then they will clean up the mess the next day.

Therefore, the result of burning the paper will only attract more ghost brothers, usually at the same time and in the same place. It is not allowed to burn the paper at any time without specific occasions.

Call names

If you have to be careful with your friends who are still outside on the night of Ghost Festival, do not name them when you travel at night. Try to match them with code names to avoid being remembered by ghost brothers.

Take photos at night

It's easy to take friends from the spirit world together and take them home. It's even more dangerous to take a self portrait in the mirror at home on ghost day, because ghost brothers are likely to come out of the mirror.