Every year, the 15th day of the seventh lunar month is the traditional ancestor worship festival in China-the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is also called July 30, Ghost Festival, Local Officials' Day and so on. The most important traditional custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival is to worship ancestors and the dead. Generally, people will burn paper money to remember their ancestors and their deceased relatives.

Perhaps what you don't know is that the Mid-Autumn Festival actually evolved from the autumn harvest in July and a half in ancient times to worship ancestors. At that time, there was no such term as the Mid-Autumn Festival. At that time, July and a half was a festival to celebrate the harvest and reward the earth in the early autumn. When a number of crops are ripe, according to the law, the people will worship their ancestors and report Qiu Cheng to their ancestors with new rice and other sacrifices. Therefore, in July and a half, there is only a simple content of worshipping ancestors to celebrate the harvest.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival, the customs mainly include: crossing the river with lanterns, offering sacrifices to ancestors, jumping lanterns, offering sacrifices to land, praying for a bumper harvest, etc. 1. Crossing the river with lanterns is also called "putting lotus lanterns", which is a traditional custom of the Chinese nation, and evolved from the custom of decorating lanterns on the Lantern Festival. Lotus lanterns usually put lamps or candles on the base, put them into rivers, lakes and seas and let them drift. The purpose of putting on lotus lanterns is to pray and pray, to mourn the deceased relatives and to bless the people in this world. Every year on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, when night falls, people who mourn for their deceased relatives come to the riverside one after another, lighting up lotus lanterns and throwing them into rivers, lakes and seas, letting them drift with the tide, hoping to bring people's thoughts and good prayers to their deceased ancestors and pray for peace and happiness!

The folk custom of ancestor worship has a long history, which has been passed down for thousands of years. It is a grand folk activity and a tradition of showing respect for ancestors' culture, and it is also a manifestation of the traditional ethics of being cautious in pursuing the future and thinking about the source.

The custom of ancestor worship on the Mid-Yuan Festival came into being because the people believed that their ancestors would return home to visit their children and grandchildren in July and a half, so they had the custom of ancestor worship.

In ancient times, folk ancestors paid great attention to the worship ceremony, and the worship ceremony on the Mid-July Festival was usually held in the evening. When worshipping, the head of the family should first worship the portraits of ancestors in the ancestral hall, and then burn incense, candles and paper. At this time, the whole family will all come to the ancestral temple and perform ancestor worship rituals in the order of seniority and age.

As it happens, the ancestor worship ceremony of "Mid-Autumn Festival" caught up with the harvest of crops in Xiaoqiu, so this day's sacrifice activity is also called "autumn harvest and ancestor worship", and the younger generation should share the joy of harvest with their ancestors.

3. The meaning of the custom of "praying for a bumper harvest" is similar to that of the custom of "offering sacrifices to the land", because "Mid-Autumn Festival" coincides with the bumper harvest in the small autumn, and the people hope to pray for the beautiful yearning for a bumper harvest in the fields in this form. The difference between the custom of "praying for a bumper harvest" and the custom of "offering sacrifices to the land" lies in the form. In ancient times, the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival was also called shi gu Night. On this night, every family had to burn incense at their doorstep to pray for a bumper harvest of rice, and put incense sticks on the ground. This is called "spreading fields" (transplanting rice), and the more you insert, the better, which symbolizes the bumper harvest of rice in autumn.

What folk customs have been handed down everywhere? As the soul of Guangxi people, I would like to introduce my hometown customs to you.

As one of the traditional ancestor worship festivals in China, the Mid-Autumn Festival is of course the first custom. We in Guangxi are no exception. Generally, we will kill a duck to eat on this day, so we will also joke that the Mid-Autumn Festival is "Duck Festival". Of course, ducks are used for eating, but chickens are used for sacrifice (usually white-cut chickens).

Worship god during the day, please come back first;

Worship the squire in the evening, and invite people to dinner first;

Two more general holidays, farewell ancestors here, mainly to talk about two more general holidays. That is, after dinner, from 9: 00 to 11: 00, adults team up to set a table at the intersection of the village to offer offerings. We children are responsible for lighting incense sticks and incense sticks and inserting them on the side of the road, and inserting a column every one meter until it reaches the end of the road, at the village edge of another village. From a distance, it looks like a salamander swimming. Finally, the adults packed their things and went home, and the children ran around on the road to have fun. It was called a happy July 15th, which is of practical significance to us.

The values advocated in traditional folk customs, such as honoring parents, remembering ancestors, inheriting culture, promoting neighborhood harmony and caring for vulnerable groups, are in the same strain as the values of today's society. The mourning of Zhongyuan has both cultural origin and practical significance. As long as we actively guide, the Mid-Autumn Festival can still be very rich.

These are the folk customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangxi, so what are the customs in your? Welcome everyone to leave a message.