In China, there are mainly customs such as offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper ingots and offering sacrifices to the land. The Mid-Yuan Festival in Japan is called the Bonin Festival, and the Japanese attach great importance to the Bonin Festival, which is now second only to New Year's Day. Many companies will have a week off, which is called "Bonin Rest", while Japanese who work outside will choose this holiday to return home for reunion and worship their ancestors.
In Thailand, the loi krathong will be held on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, and people will put lanterns to pray for the dead. In Chinese-speaking areas of Singapore, apart from the traditional customs such as offering sacrifices to ancestors and Purdue, the Mid-Autumn Festival also has a special performance to entertain ghosts. The local Fujian people (Minnan people) call it "July Song Terrace" or "Song Terrace" for short.
The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival on July 15th.
The emergence of the Mid-Autumn Festival can be traced back to the ancestor worship and related festivals in ancient times. 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. This festival is a traditional cultural festival to remember the ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect the ancestors and do filial piety.
"July 30" was originally a folk ancestor worship festival in ancient times, but it was called "Zhongyuan Festival", which originated from Taoism after the Eastern Han Dynasty. Buddhism calls July and a half the "Bonin Festival". In a certain sense, the ancestor worship festival in July and a half belongs to folk customs, the Mid-Autumn Festival belongs to Taoism, and the Bonin Festival belongs to Buddhism.