Report 1
According to legend, there is no Mid-Autumn Festival in the south, which was introduced by Han people who moved south in ancient times. But why does the South celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival on July 14th instead of July 15th? There is a legend that during the Song Dynasty, there was a war in the north, and a group of Han people fled to the south in a hurry. But on the eve of their escape, they encountered a difficult problem: how to take their ancestors away? Traditionally, only on New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Double Ninth Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival do ancestors' spirits gather home and follow their spirits. At this time, there is only one day before the Mid-Autumn Festival (the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month), but they can't wait.
In order to gather the souls of their ancestors, they decided to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival one day in advance, gather the souls of their ancestors, and then fled to the south to take refuge with their ancestral tablets. Later, in order to commemorate this day, Han people who fled to the south changed the Mid-Autumn Festival to the 14th day of the seventh lunar month every year. Now, "July 14th" is a common festival for many southern Han people and ethnic minorities.
Statement 2
According to the survey, the festival celebrated by southerners is July 14, and that celebrated by northerners is July 15. Both of these festivals are called the Mid-Yuan Festival, that is, Ghost Festival. Southerners celebrate this festival on July 14, because foreign enemies invaded before. In order to avoid being caught by the enemy, the ancestors advanced the festival by one day.
Custom of Halloween
What is the date of Ghost Festival? What's the date of Ghost Festival in the lunar calendar?
It is a tradition to worship ancestors on Halloween.
It's ancestor worship. Although many people have begun to worship their ancestors through the internet, flowers, electronic incense sticks, etc., instead of the traditional way of worshipping their ancestors, I believe there are still many people who will worship their ancestors through activities such as burning incense, burning paper money and lighting wax. Then it is inevitable to pay attention to the following fire safety common sense:
1. It is forbidden to use naked flames, smoke, burn incense, burn paper money and set off firecrackers to prevent mountain fires.
2. Don't burn incense paper and set off firecrackers on the lawn, next to gas pipelines, high-voltage lines, cars, septic tanks, reed haystacks, and construction sites and sheds in the community to prevent gas leakage or methane ignition from exploding.
3. If you need to light candles, burn paper, light incense and set off firecrackers, please clean up the surrounding combustibles and guard the site. You can't leave until the fire is completely extinguished, so as to prevent the ashes from rekindling or Fei Huo from causing a fire.
Please avoid lighting candles, burning incense, burning paper and setting off firecrackers in windy days.
5. It is forbidden to occupy or block the safety exits, evacuation passages and fire truck passages during the sweeping activities.
For a traditional festival like Mid-Autumn Festival, it is not so much superstition as reverence and gratitude for family members, life and death and nature. A person with awe will have scruples about doing things and leave room for himself and others in everything. The so-called life is the same. In a word, this festival tells us that life is short, so we should cherish it, learn to be grateful and live seriously, but do good deeds to have a bright future for Mo Wen.
What is the date of Ghost Festival? What's the date of Ghost Festival in the lunar calendar?
The traditional custom of Ghost Festival
In the past, the atmosphere of "July 14th" was quite strong. The time to celebrate the festival is noon. In many places in Guangdong and Guangxi, ducks are used to worship ancestors. According to legend, a duck is a god who carries the souls of his ancestors across the river. Killing ducks for the holidays is to let them accomplish this mission. In fact, because the ducks ate a lot of grains scattered in the fields in the "June farm" (that is, the early harvest season), they were full of fat. It was the right time to eat, and after sacrificing their ancestors, the delicious and tender duck meat could be feasted.
The highlight of "July 14" is "supporting seclusion" at night. "Living in seclusion" means "raising ghosts", which can also be said to be "giving ghosts some daily expenses". That night, every household placed offerings at the door, burned paper money, spent clothes, and inserted incense and candles. These banknotes are specially made. Papyrus paper is colored, stamped with money, rolled into cylinders or folded into ingots. Floral clothing refers to cloth, clothes, shoes and socks, etc. Burn these things with incense sticks to express the feelings of missing their deceased relatives and let them "enjoy" in the underworld. These commemorative items also show that they distributed "money" to the underworld and gave it to ghosts who had no relatives. Incense candles lit all over the street are a channel to guide ghosts to enjoy sacrifices and return to hell.
In Wuchuan and other places in western Guangdong, there are also activities of "supporting mountains and secluded places" and "supporting water and secluded places". "Tuoyou Mountain" refers to placing sacrifices, lighting incense sticks and worshipping the lonely souls in the mountains in the wild Shan Ye and hillside; The "water-holding secluded place" is located by the river and pond, offering sacrifices to drowning people.