The Mid-Autumn Festival is the name of Taoism, which is called July and a half in folk customs, and is called the Bonin Festival in Buddhism. July is auspicious month and filial month, and July and a half is a festival for people to celebrate the harvest and reward the earth in early autumn. Some crops are ripe, so people should worship their ancestors according to the law, and report Qiu Cheng to their ancestors with new rice and other sacrifices. It is a traditional cultural festival in memory of ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors and do filial piety.
Sacrificing ancestors on the 14th/15th of July is a traditional cultural festival popular in the countries of Chinese character cultural circle and overseas Chinese areas. On this day, through pious sacrifice activities, the feelings of pursuing the future with caution are expressed. Festival customs mainly include offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper ingots and offering sacrifices to the land. New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Chung Yeung Festival are traditional festivals for ancestor worship of the Chinese nation.
Festival significance of Mid-Autumn Festival
From the legends about July and a half, we can deeply understand that the sacrifice in July and a half has a dual significance, one is to show filial piety of remembering 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. Therefore, while celebrating Zhongyuan, 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 30 is also one of the traditional festivals for ancestor worship in China, and a belief is reflected behind its culture. July 30 belongs to intangible cultural heritage, is a kind of culture, and is an ancient and modern tradition of remembering the ancestors. This tradition embodies the ancient people's thought of "being cautious in the end and pursuing the distance", and its cultural core is to respect the ancestors and be filial.