2. The origin of "Ghost Festival" is said to have originated from Buddhism. In the last chapter of Yan Jiaxun, he wrote: "If you repay your kindness regardless of your personal virtue, frost will reveal right and wrong, and sometimes you will sacrifice. I hope you will come to Lanpen in July and a half." It can be seen that there was already a festival in July and a half in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. But in this passage, the words "sometimes offering sacrifices" and "July and a half" are divided into two things, probably "offering sacrifices to relatives" to keep ancestors from freezing and starving in the underworld; The "bonsai" is to pray for the Buddha to use the "divine power" of the Buddha, that is, to turn over, to alleviate the pain of dead relatives in the underworld. It can be seen that the Mid-July Mid-Autumn Festival at this time, although there is a certain custom of ancestor worship, has not yet formed a certain ceremony, and this festival is more for offering Buddha.
3. The Mid-Autumn Festival in Taoism is a festival focusing on praying for impunity. Taoism calls the first month to June "heavenly officials", July to December "local officials", the fifteenth day of the first month "Shangyuan", July 15th "Central Plains" and October 15th "Hou Yuan" and "Shuiguan". In the Northern Wei Dynasty, Taoist Kou attached three principles and three gods respectively, saying that a man named Chen married the third daughter of the Dragon King, and tied the knot with three brothers on the 15th of the first month, the 15th of July and the 15th of October, respectively, namely the celestial officer, the local officer and the water officer. They were all miraculous, and they were named "three emperors", in charge of blessing, forgiveness of sins and relief of Eritrea respectively.