There is a saying that you cannot go out at night during the Hungry Ghost Festival.

You can’t go out at night during the Ghost Festival. In addition to superstition, it can also be explained scientifically, because it is already autumn in the middle of July on the lunar calendar, and there are more poisonous snakes, poisonous insects, and wild beasts on the mountains at this time. .

And this is also the time when they are more active and more irritable. If people choose to go out at night at this time, they are more likely to encounter them and be hurt by them. Therefore, in rural areas, when During the Hungry Ghost Festival, people rarely go out at night.

Legend has it that during the Hungry Ghost Festival, the door "down below" will be open, so ancestors can return to their homes at this time to have a look, so people think that the yin energy on this night It's extremely heavy, so in the evening it has to be closed early and you can't go out.

Customs of the Ghost Festival:

1. Worship ancestors

On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, legend has it that deceased ancestors will come home to visit , and then quickly return "down there", so at this time people will prepare some incense candles, meat, candies, etc. for their ancestors to worship their ancestors, so that their ancestors can live happily "down there". At the same time, we also pray to our ancestors to keep our family safe.

2. Give away little ghosts

In some places in my country, people will hold "give away little ghosts" activities during the Hungry Ghost Festival. For example, after dark, people will prepare some incense candles and tofu. , rice and other items, go to the roadside to worship. The purpose of this is to allow those helpless "lonely souls" to have food and enjoy the incense and candles of the world, hoping that they can take away their bad luck.

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