The birth of Mid-Autumn Festival can be traced back to ancestor worship and related festivals in ancient times. July is auspicious month and filial month, and July 30 is a festival for people to celebrate the harvest and repay the earth in early autumn. Some crops are ripe, so people should worship their ancestors according to the law and report Qiu Cheng to them with new rice and other sacrifices. This festival is a traditional cultural festival to remember the ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect the ancestors and do filial piety.
3. Sacrificing ancestors on July 14 and 15 are traditional cultural festivals popular in countries with Chinese character cultural circle and overseas Chinese areas, and they are also traditional ancestral festivals with the same name as New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Chung Yeung Festival. 20 10 in may, the "mid-autumn festival" declared by the Ministry of culture in the hong kong special administrative region was selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list.
Eat duck
On the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, many places in China will choose to eat ducks, and Hunan is no exception. This is because "duck" means "stress", which is homophonic. Eating duck is to kill ghosts.
offer sacrifices to ancestors
The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, also known as "July 30", is the Mid-Autumn Festival and ancestor worship festival. People believe that ancestors will go home to visit their descendants at this time, so they need to worship their ancestors. Worship ceremonies are usually held in the evening before the end of July, and are not limited to a specific day.