Four Ghost Festivals: March 3rd, Tomb-Sweeping Day, July 15th and the first day of October. Precautions: Avoid bringing red ropes, bells and wind chimes to attract ghosts, and try to avoid going out. If you encounter paranormal, don't panic, concentrate all your attention and open your eyes. On March 3rd, the Jianghuai and Jiangnan areas are called Ghost Festival on March 3rd of the lunar calendar every year. It is said that ghosts haunt this day, and at night, every household sets off firecrackers in every house to scare away ghosts and drive them away. See the entry "Tomb-Sweeping Day" for Chinese traditional festivals in Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to legend, on July 14th/15th, every year, from July 1st, the King of Yan ordered the door of hell to be opened wide, so that those ghosts who suffered and were imprisoned in hell all the year round could get out of hell, get a short-term wandering and enjoy human blood. Therefore, people called July a ghost month, and this month was considered as an unlucky month, and they neither married nor moved. Every year, the 14th/15th day of the seventh lunar month is the Yulan Festival, also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, July 30 or Ghost Festival. In the past, people prepared some dishes, wine, rice, gold, silver, clothes and paper to worship ghosts and gods at the intersection on this night. The tolerant festivals and customs on July 14th/15th are complicated, which are not only the folk ghost festival, but also the Mid-Yuan Festival of Taoism, the Bonin Festival of Buddhism, and the combination of Buddhism, Taoism and Buddhism. Taoism has the so-called celestial officials, local officials and water officials, which are collectively called the three officials. These three officials are the representatives of the Jade Emperor sent to the world. Every year, they inspect the good and evil of the world and report to heaven. The birthdays of the three officials are the 15th of the first month, 15th of July and 15th of October, which are also called Sanyuan. On July 15th, it was called Zhongyuan, and it was the time when the local officials and schools were pardoned. On this day, he had to take out a thick roster and draw a picture according to the performance of immortals, mortals and animals, so as to forgive sins and avoid punishment. On the Mid-Yuan Festival, the people engage in some sacrificial activities to save those ghosts and ghosts, which should be related to the forgiveness of sins by local officials. July 15 is the Buddhist Bonsai Festival. It is said that there was a disciple named Mulian of Sakyamuni. Although her mother was young and beautiful, she didn't have any good words and deeds, loved money and was stingy, especially hated monks. After her death, she was thrown into the ranks of evil spirits. Mulian followed the instructions of the Buddhist group, and on July 15th, she prepared all kinds of fruits and utensils, put them into pots, and supported ten monks. Only then did her mother leave the evil spirits world and ascend to heaven. In view of this, the Buddha, by extension, asked Buddhist disciples to do their best to be filial, to be a basin, a Buddha and a monk on July 15th every year, and to repay their parents' kindness. The significance of Buddhist Bonsai is in harmony with Confucian filial piety, and this day has become a ghost festival for folk sacrifices to deceased parents and ancestors. July 14/ 15 of the lunar calendar is the biggest festival in the underworld-Ghost Festival, also known as the Mid-Yuan Festival or the Bonin Festival, and it is one of the three major festivals in the underworld in China. There is a legend among the people that the Lantern Festival is celebrated in the dead and the Ghost Festival is celebrated in the underworld. It is said that on that day, Yan will also spend the festive season with ghosts in costumes, and let us living people bless them together, wishing people in another world all their wishes come true and enjoy the happiness that the world has not had time to enjoy. Therefore, many local festivals in our country will hold activities such as offering sacrifices, attending Buddha, cleaning tombs, reviewing, enjoying flowers and fishing to celebrate. On July 14th/15th, the gate of hell opened wide. Whether it's burning paper money to send blessings, holding daisies to mourn, offering sacrifices to ancestors on the Internet, or putting out river lanterns, people alive today miss the past together and send blessings to their ancestors together, which is the spontaneity of human spirit, the extension of feelings and the most basic belief. And at the same time, "the living should cherish every day alive, don't be ashamed of society and friends, and don't be ashamed of relatives who have left forever." Because, one day we will meet them. At that time, you can proudly say that you are a hero on earth and a ghost hero in the underworld! " According to the cultural logic of Taoism, a year's time and space should be divided into two parts: upper and lower yin and yang. Moreover, China Taoism believes that the three basic elements for nurturing everything in the world are heaven, earth and water. Therefore, Taoism regards the first half of the year as a celestial official and the second half as a local official. What needs to be explained here is that the "official" mentioned here does not refer to the "official" of human officials, but refers to the segment in the process of the flow of time and space, which is similar to the "official" in the game of Go in China. Taoism in China is mainly produced in the developed areas of agricultural civilization in China. Therefore, Taoism in China has always believed that heaven and earth are mysterious, everything is born on the earth, water is the foundation of life, and the earth contains water. That is to say, because China's agricultural civilization pays attention to the important role of the two elements of earth and water in human beings, China's Taoist cultural concept has always contained the "ontology", "epistemology" and "methodology" of observing the world with the earth as the center. According to the world view of Taoism, Taoism is used to calling the fifteenth day of the first month of the year "Tianguan" (the first half of the year) "Shangyuan Festival"; In the second half of the year, the fifteenth day of July of the local official festival is called the "Mid-Yuan Festival". Because the earth contains water and water acts on the earth, October 15th in the middle of the second half of the year is the "Xiayuan Festival". These three elements, namely, the upper, middle and lower elements, constitute a systematic understanding of Taoism's trinity of the world. Taoism in China is different from many religions in the world. Many religions in the world are the unity of God and man, or just like Christianity, they pay attention to the trinity of "Tao into flesh", which makes religious communicators often highly deified. The purpose of China's Taoist missionary is very clear. The Taoist disseminator is not a god but a human being. Therefore, Taoism teaches students in accordance with their aptitude. For those with high wisdom, the truth in the Tao Te Ching is clearly stated; for those with insufficient wisdom or little time to deeply reflect on their own moral and ethical construction, stories are written to explain the truth. "Education for pleasure" is a missionary method derived from Taoism in China. The "Mid-Autumn Festival" of Taoism in China is actually a festival to spread morality and ethics, that is, to advocate people to pay attention to Xiu De on this day. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, people with thoughts and time will gather together to study Laozi's Tao Te Ching, and communicate with each other and reflect on themselves. For the general congregation, Taoism has created some stories to "educate in amusement". For example, Taoism invented that a man named Chen Ziqi married the daughter of the Dragon King, and gave birth to three children, namely, "Heaven Officer, Land Officer and Water Officer" on the 15th of the first month, 15th of July and 15th of October respectively. These "three officials" are in charge of the three tasks of human blessing, forgiveness of sins and salvation. They have boundless magic power, and they have to patrol the world in these three days to check whether people's moral quality is good or bad. However, Taoism in China is a very tolerant religion that gives people the opportunity to change and renew themselves at any time. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is not only a festival to reward kindness and punish badness, but also a festival to forgive sins. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a confessional festival and an atonement festival in China. People who have sinned in a year can go through various ceremonies on the Mid-Autumn Festival. On the first day of October, it is called "October Dynasty", also known as "ancestor worship festival". Since ancient times, China has had the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors at the new harvest time to show filial piety and not forget one's roots. So people also use millet on the first day of October? Sacrifice ancestors. On the first day of October, ancestors were sacrificed, including family sacrifices and tomb sacrifices, both in the north and south. Today, in many areas in the south of the Yangtze River, there is also the custom of offering sacrifices to new graves on the first day of October. The first day of October is also the first day of winter, after which the climate is getting colder. People are afraid that the ancestors' souls in the underworld are short of clothes and clothes. Therefore, in addition to the general offerings such as food, incense sticks and paper money, there is also an indispensable offering-the ghost clothes. When offering sacrifices, people incinerate the ghost clothes to their ancestors, which is called "sending cold clothes". Therefore, the first day of October is also called "Clothing Burning Festival". Later, in some places, the custom of "burning cold clothes" changed. Instead of burning cold clothes, people burned a lot of ghost paper in a paper bag, and wrote the names of the recipients and senders and their corresponding names. This is called "baggage". There is a name of cold clothes, but there is no reality of cold clothes. People think that the underworld, like the dead, can buy many things with money. There is also a story about ancestor worship that Cai Lun made paper and Cai Mo burned paper. When Cai Lun first invented paper, business was good. Cai Lun's sister-in-law Huiniang asked her husband Cai Mo to learn papermaking from Cai Lun. They came back to open a paper mill, but the paper made by Cai Mo was of poor quality and could not be sold, so they were very anxious. Later, Huiniang thought of a way to get out of trouble. One night in the middle of the night, Huiniang pretended to die of an acute illness. Cai Mo was heartbroken and sad in front of her coffin. While burning paper, he cried, "I learned to make paper with my brother, but I didn't pay attention to it. The quality of the paper made was so poor that it made you angry. I'm going to burn this paper to ashes to relieve my hatred. " When he finished burning, he brought paper to burn. After burning for a while, he only heard Huiniang shouting in the coffin, "Open the door, I'm back." This shocked people. People opened the coffins, and Huiniang sang in a pretentious way: money in the dead can go all over the world, and paper in the dead is doing business. Who will let me go home if my husband doesn't burn the paper? Huiniang sang many times and said, "I was a ghost just now, but now I am a human being. Don't be afraid. When I went to the underworld, the king of hell made me suffer, and my husband gave me money, so many kids helped me. Money really makes the mare go. "Officer Sancao also asked me for money, and I gave him all the money, so he opened the back door of the underworld and let me come back." Cai Mo pretended to be confused: "I didn't send you money?" Huiniang said, "The paper you burn is the money of the underworld." Having said that, Cai Mo hugged several bundles of paper and burned them to his parents. Hearing this, the people present thought that burning paper had great benefits, and they all bought paper from Cai Mo. Hui Niang generously gave it to the villagers, and this story spread widely. Villagers from far and near came to buy Cai's paper and burn it to their dead relatives. In less than two days, the backlog of paper was snapped up. Hui Niang's "Return to the Sun" happened on the first day of October in the lunar calendar. Therefore, later generations sacrificed their ancestors on the first day of October and burned paper on the grave to show their memory of their ancestors. On the first day of October, there is a custom of offering sacrifices to the king of cattle in some places. According to legend, this custom originated from the State of Qin in the Spring and Autumn Period. One day, Qin Wengong ordered someone to cut down a catalpa tree, which suddenly turned into a cow. Qin Wengong is hunted. The cow jumped into the water and never came up again. People set up a "Nute Temple" to worship this cow god. Nute is a tall, strong and majestic bull. Such a bull, in people's minds, has the function of driving away epidemics and evil spirits and protecting cattle. See /view/2 1843.htm for details. Thank you for watching.