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.
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Custom:
1, burn paper
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, burning paper is the most prominent among the folk beliefs. According to legend, paper in the dead is money in the underworld, and people burn paper to give money to their deceased 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 will not rob their ancestors again.
2, burning incense and burning guns
Every night on July 14th or 15th, we burn incense and firecrackers outside the door, and at the same time "burn bags" (also called "recommended bags").
3. Sacrifice the land
In July and a half, people still worship 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.