Zhongyuan Festival is a Taoist name, commonly known as July 30, July 14, auspicious month, shi gu and Zhai Gu, and Buddhism is called the Yulanben Festival. "July 30" was originally a folk ancestor worship festival in ancient times, but it was called "Zhongyuan Festival", which originated from Taoism after the Eastern Han Dynasty.
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 land. Its emergence can be traced back to ancestor worship and related festivals in ancient times. July is auspicious month and filial month, and July and a half is a festival for people to celebrate the harvest and reward the earth in early autumn. Some crops are ripe, so people should worship their ancestors according to the law, and report Qiu Cheng to their ancestors with new rice and other sacrifices.
This festival is a traditional cultural festival to remember the ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect the ancestors and do filial piety.