The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is the Mid-Autumn Festival, commonly known as Ghost Festival and July 30. Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional festival in China, is also known as July 30, July 14, Ancestor Festival, Orchid Festival and Local Official Festival. The festival customs mainly include ancestor worship, river lanterns, sacrifice to the dead, burning paper ingots, and land sacrifice. "Mid-Autumn Festival" is the name of Taoism, which is called "July 30" (or "July 14") in folk customs. Its emergence can be traced back to ancestor worship and related festivals in ancient times.

Festivals are related to the cycle of Yin and Yang in ancient culture. In the Book of Changes, "seven" is a changing number and a number of resurrection. 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 are required to worship their ancestors and report Qiu Cheng to their ancestors with new rice and other sacrifices. 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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Hebei: Botou City and Nanpi County carried fruits, preserved meat, wine and money to the ancestral graves on July 15th. And hold the hemp valley to the field stalk, which is called "recommending new things" The Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangping County worships ancestors with fresh food, and prepares fruits and vegetables and steamed sheep for grandchildren, which is called "sending sheep". On July 15th, Qinghe County went to the grave to offer sacrifices to sweep, and presented her daughter with steamed sheep.

Shanxi: Scholars in Yonghe County sacrifice Kuixing on this day. The shepherd family in Zhangzi County slaughtered sheep in the Mid-Autumn Festival to compete with the gods. It is said that this can increase the production of sheep. Meat was also given to relatives, and those who were poor and had no sheep steamed noodles in the shape of sheep instead. The farmers in Yangcheng County made cats, tigers and grains out of wheat crumbs and sacrificed them in the fields, which is called "going to the fields". Mayi County People's Mid-Autumn Festival takes wheat flour as a child's shape, named "Mianren", and presents children from relatives to each other. Farmers in Xin county hang five-color paper on the stalks of fields on the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Henan: In Shangqiu County, when Zhongyuan worshiped the local officials, a paper flag was hung at the door, which was said to prevent insects. Flying kites on the Mid-Autumn Festival in Mengjin County. On July 15th, Zhi County drew a gray circle in front of the door and burned paper gongs in the circle to worship ancestors.