Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyian Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, is the 15th day of the first lunar month every year, which is the last important festival in China Spring Festival. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called "night" "night", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon in a year is called the Lantern Festival.
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.
Next Yuan Festival, a traditional festival in China, falls on the 15th day of the 10th lunar month, also known as "Next Yuan Day" and "Next Yuan Day". It is one of the traditional folk festivals in China.
Next Yuan Day is also one of the fasting dates stipulated in the Taoist fasting law. Taoism believes that everything that depends on divine power, such as praying for blessings, overcoming disasters, pulling out hardships, apologizing for sins, seeking immortality, prolonging life, crossing over the dead, etc., should be lent. There are two kinds of methods to practice fasting: one is slightly three kinds, and the other is to provide fasting. That is, set up an altar for fasting and dipping in the gods, so as to avoid disaster.
There are nine ways to make altars in ancient times: the upper three altars were set up by the state, the middle three altars were set up by officials and the lower three altars were set up by scholars. Later generations gradually relaxed their altars. For fasting can "accumulate virtue and heal"; 2. Diet fast. Before the sacrifice, the ancients should bathe and change clothes, do not drink alcohol or eat meat, so as to keep the outside clean, while the inside is clean and empty, so as to show sincerity and respect, which is called fasting. Fasting can "keep life with God"; Sanxinzhai Heart-fasting can be "quiet and calm".
With the passage of the sun and the moon, the next Yuan Festival has gradually evolved into a traditional festival of offering rich dishes, offering sacrifices to the ancestors and the dead, and praying for prosperity. Enjoying ancestor worship is first a reflection of ancestor belief, and human belief in ancestors is human worship of themselves. Believing in ancestors, offering sacrifices to ancestors and expressing piety to their souls are aimed at praying for their protection for future generations.