The Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the Day of the Dead and the Half Moon Festival. The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is the Mid-Autumn Festival. People generally carry out ancestor worship activities. No matter rich or poor, we should prepare food, wine and paper money to pay homage to the deceased to show our memory of the deceased ancestors. The Mid-Autumn Festival is usually seven days, and there are old and new people. Those who die within three years are called new deaths, and those who died three years ago are called old deaths. Superstition is that the old and the new will go home to visit during this period, and the old and the new will come back at different times. The new one will come back first, and the old one will come back after the meeting. So it is necessary to visit the shrine alone. The time to burn paper money is in the dead of night. Sprinkle a few circles of lime in the yard first, saying that the paper money is burned in the circle and the ghosts dare not rob it, and then burn it in piles. When burning, I kept chanting: "So-and-so will get the money." Finally, we have to burn a pile outside the circle, saying it is for ghosts. On the day when the deceased goes back, both rich and poor people should cook a good meal to commemorate the deceased, which is also called "seeing the deceased off". July 15th is the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is mainly to worship ancestors, so it is also called Ghost Festival. Watermelon is indispensable in the offering, so it is also called melon festival. According to Buddhist legend, Manglietia's mother (Manglietia is a Buddhist figure and one of the top ten disciples of Sakyamuni) fell into the hungry ghost road, and her food intake turned into a fire. Mulian asked the Buddha for help. The Buddha read the Orchid Sutra for him and told him to make a pot for his mother on July 15th. In modern times, offering melons and fruits and Chen Hippo as sacrifices to ancestors certainly means tasting new things, and it is also a legacy of basin sacrifices. In the old days, the Mid-Autumn Festival was a bonsai for Manglietia to save her mother. Later, it gradually evolved into a river lantern, offering sacrifices to orphans and people who died unexpectedly. The Central Plains River Lantern in Texas is spectacular. People use melon peels, bowls and paper to make lamps, and use streets and lanes as units to make oversized paper boats. Paper stood on the boat, holding a nine-ring mord in his hand. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, people put lights and paper boats into Hanoi and went down the river. Suddenly, the river was brightly lit, swaying like the stars in the sky. In the coastal area of Jiaodong, Taoist priests put lights in the sea by boat and played bamboo music. People on both sides of the Texas Canal flocked to the river to see the lights. Tengzhou also has the custom of putting river lanterns, which is roughly the same as that in Texas. The difference is that before putting on the river lights, we put on the incense table and recite the scriptures. When the monk recited the scriptures, he scattered the steamed buns under the stage, and the children rushed to eat. It is said that eating it can eliminate disasters. In order to pay homage to their relatives who drowned in the sea, fishermen on Long Island made boats out of wooden boards and straws to place memorial tablets and sacrifices of the drowning people, such as candy and cakes, and some even put on cotton-padded clothes, shoes and hats and daily necessities that the deceased loved before his death, then lit candles, and married men of the same age threw the boats into the sea. The custom of ancestor worship in Mid-Autumn Festival is quite common in Shandong. They usually go to the grave to worship their ancestors in the afternoon. Sacrifices in Shan County are particularly rich, including a bamboo basin, a paper coat and a vegetarian table. Zichuan invited ancestors to sacrifice at home, and every household planted spikes on the door. It is said that this grain is used as a horse so that ancestors can ride it back after the sacrifice. The diet of Mid-Autumn Festival is usually steamed buns, jiaozi and steamed bread, and seasonal fruits such as apples and pears are eaten after meals. Lingxian County is the only place that makes an exception and calls the Mid-Autumn Festival the Drunk Festival.