Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival". According to the Taoist "Sanyuan Festival", the fifteenth day of the first month is also called "Shangyuan Festival". Since ancient times, the custom of Lantern Festival has been based on the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is called July 30, and Buddhism is called Kasahara Festival. Festival customs mainly include offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper ingots and offering sacrifices to the ground. Its birth can be traced back to ancestor worship and related festivals in ancient times. July is auspicious month and filial month, and July 30 is a festival for people to celebrate the harvest and repay the earth in early autumn. Some crops are ripe, so people should worship their ancestors according to the law and report Qiu Cheng to them with new rice and other sacrifices.
Next Yuan Festival is the 15th day of the 10th lunar month, also known as "Next Yuan Festival" and "Next Yuan Festival". The next Yuan Festival is the day when the water officials solve the urban problem and the Valley Emperor solves it. As the saying goes, one day counts. According to the investigation, the water official recorded heaven to solve problems for the people. On this day, as a Dojo, the Taoist temple offered sacrifices to the dead and prayed for the next Yuan Dynasty water official to solve the problem.
The custom of ancestor worship in Mid-Autumn Festival;
People believe that ancestors will go home to visit their children in July and a half, so they need to worship their ancestors. This kind of ancestor worship is a reflection of the traditional ethics, and it is also a cultural tradition of being grateful for morality. When crops are harvested in autumn, the joy of harvest is just shared with ancestors. Worship ceremonies are usually held in the evening of mid-July. You should worship your ancestors on normal days, and generally don't move their tablets.
When offering sacrifices to ancestors in July and a half, we should invite out the ancestral tablets one by one, respectfully put them on the sacrificial table, then burn incense in front of each ancestral tablet, and have tea and rice three times a day. Due to the slightly different customs in different places, the ways of festivals are not the same, and the time of festivals will be different.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, burning paper is the most prominent folk belief. According to legend, the dead paper is money from the underworld, and people burn paper to give money to their dead ancestors and relatives. Usually, when you burn paper on the grave, you should leave a few copies and burn them at the crossroads, in order to give some alms to homeless wild ghosts so that they won't rob their ancestors again.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Last Yuan Festival Baidu Encyclopedia-Mid Yuan Festival Baidu Encyclopedia-Next Yuan Festival.