The main offerings are sometimes melons, fruits, bacon, hemp and jiaozi. Before, we should prepare paper money, paper clothes, paper pants, gold ingots, cash boxes and so on. In modern times, people have added buildings, bicycles, radios, color TVs, refrigerators, cars and other paper objects for their ancestors to enjoy. Ancestor worship is mostly led by family elders to sweep graves, add soil, offer incense, kowtow and set off firecrackers to welcome ancestors.

In early autumn, people celebrate the harvest and repay the earth. Some crops are ripe. According to the law, people should worship their ancestors, use new rice and other sacrifices, and report the situation in Qiu Cheng to their ancestors. This festival is a traditional cultural festival to remember the ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect the ancestors and do filial piety.

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Festival significance

From the legends about July and a half, we can deeply realize that the sacrifice in July and a half has double meanings. One is to show filial piety in memory of ancestors, and the other is to carry forward the righteous act of pushing oneself and others and being charitable. This is all from the perspective of compassion, which is very human. So while celebrating the Central Plains, we should get rid of the ghost's point of view and look forward to mutual love.

As far as its cultural connotation is concerned, July 14/ 15 is also one of the traditional festivals in China, and its culture reflects a belief. July and a half belong to intangible cultural heritage, which is a kind of culture and a tradition of remembering ancestors in ancient and modern times. This tradition embodies the ancient people's thought of "being cautious to the end and pursuing the distance", and its cultural core is to respect the ancestors and do filial piety.

Baidu Encyclopedia-July 30th