1, Zhongyuan Purdue
Zhongyuan is a very important folk festival. Many people will hold sacrificial activities with wine, meat, sugar cakes, fruits and other sacrifices between the first day of July and the 30th day of July in the old calendar, so as to comfort many ghosts who are playing in the world and pray for their peace and success throughout the year. Those who are more solemn even invite monks and Taoists to recite the scriptures.
2. Sacrifice the land
On the 15th of July, it was still popular among the people to offer sacrifices to land and crops. Scatter the offerings into the fields. After burning paper, it is wrapped around the ears of crops with five-color paper cut into pieces. Legend has it that hail can be avoided and a bumper harvest can be achieved in autumn. At the same time, some places have to go to Houtu Temple to offer sacrifices. Dingxiang county folk custom hangs hemp and valley at the door.
3. Sheep Festival
On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, it is also called the "Sheep Festival". Han Xu Shen said in Shuo Wen Jie Zi: "Sheep are auspicious." It can be seen that in ancient times, sheep, an animal, always represented auspiciousness. In the rural areas of old Beijing and North China, it is popular that grandfathers and uncles send live sheep to their little nephews on July 15th. Legend has it that this custom is related to the legend that agarwood splits the mountain to save mother. From then on, the folk left the custom of sending live sheep to my uncle, and later it gradually evolved into sending a sheep to the other side.
The festive significance of the Mid-Autumn Festival;
1, remember the ancestors
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival of offering sacrifices. People will worship their ancestors, burn paper money, add soil, etc. to express their thoughts and respect for their ancestors. This is a way to inherit the culture of filial piety, so that people can pursue the future cautiously and remember their ancestors.
2. Carry forward the righteous act of pushing yourself and others and being charitable.
By offering sacrifices and praying, the custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival extends the worship of ancestors and filial piety to more people, and further promotes the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation.
3. Inheriting folk beliefs
The custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival is closely related to folk beliefs, which reflects people's awe and gratitude for the gods.
4. Celebrate the harvest and reward the gift of the earth.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is also a folk festival to celebrate the harvest and reward the earth in early autumn. Together with July 15th, August 15th and September 15th, it is called the "Three Seasons Festival", and some crops are ripe. As a rule, people should worship their ancestors and report Qiu Cheng to their ancestors with new rice and other sacrifices.