On the Mid-Autumn Festival, many people will hold sacrificial activities with wine, meat, sugar cakes, fruits and other sacrifices between the first day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, in order to comfort the ghosts who are playing on earth and pray for their safety and success all the year round. More solemn even asked monks and Taoists to recite scriptures.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, burning paper is the most prominent folk belief. According to legend, the dead paper is money from the underworld, and people burn paper to give money to their dead ancestors and relatives. Usually, when you burn paper on the grave, you should leave a few copies and burn them at the crossroads, in order to give some alms to homeless wild ghosts so that they won't rob their ancestors again.

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In the traditional custom of Ghost Festival in the mid-Yuan Dynasty, China people hoped that their ancestors would come back from Du Feng on this day and "eat fireworks again". But "this fireworks is not the other fireworks", which is specially prepared for the younger generation and ancestors, and contains the meaning of filial piety.

2010May 18, the Ministry of Culture of China announced the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage recommended projects (newly selected projects). The "Mid-Autumn Festival" declared by the Hong Kong SAR was selected as a folk intangible cultural heritage.

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