July 14/15, according to legend, from July 1 every year, the king of hell ordered to open the door of hell, so that those ghosts who suffered and were imprisoned in hell all the year round could get out of hell, get a short stroll and enjoy the blood of the world. Therefore, people call July a ghost month. This month is considered unlucky, neither getting married nor moving. The inclusive holiday custom of July 14/ 15 is complicated. It is not only a folk ghost festival, but also a Taoist Mid-Yuan Festival and a Buddhist Bonne Festival, which is a combination of monks, Taoism and vulgarity. In Taoism, there are so-called heavenly officials, local officials and water officials, collectively referred to as the three officials. These three officials are the representatives sent by the Jade Emperor to the world, who patrol the world for good and evil every year and report to the heaven. The official birthdays are the fifteenth day of the first month, the fifteenth day of July, and the fifteenth day of October, which is also called Sanyuan. July 15th, called the Central Plains. It's time for local officials to forgive their sins. On this day, he will take out a thick roster and draw a sketch according to the performance of immortals, mortals and animals to forgive sins and avoid punishment. It should be related to the fact that local officials held some sacrificial activities on the Mid-Autumn Festival to save the ghosts from atonement. July 15 is a Buddhist festival in Orchid Basin. It is said that Sakyamuni had a disciple named Mulian. Although his mother was young and beautiful, she didn't have any good words and deeds. She was stingy with money and especially hated monks. After her death, she was put into the ranks of evil spirits. Manglietia prepared all kinds of dishes and fruits according to the instructions of the Buddha group, and put all kinds of utensils into the pot to support ten monks. Her mother just left the evil world and went to heaven. In view of this, the Buddha, by extension, asked Buddhist disciples to do their best to be filial. On July 15 every year, they will make a blue flowerpot for the Buddha and the monk to repay their parents' kindness. The significance of Buddha's Bone Festival The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is the biggest festival in the underworld-Ghost Festival, also known as Zhongyuan Festival or Bone Festival, and it is one of the three important festivals in China. There are folk legends about the Lantern Festival for the dead and the Ghost Festival for the dead. It is said that on that day, the ghost king will wear his best clothes and spend the festive season with the ghosts. Let us living people bless them together and wish people in another world all their wishes come true and enjoy the happiness that this world has not had time to enjoy. Therefore, many local communities in China will hold activities such as offering sacrifices, chanting Buddha, sweeping graves, reviewing, enjoying flowers and fishing to celebrate. July 14/ 15, the day when the gate of hell opened wide. Whether it's burning paper money to send blessings, holding daisies to send a ghost festival, offering sacrifices to ancestors online, or lighting a river lantern, it's the spontaneity of human spirit, an extension of feelings, and the most basic belief that people alive today miss the past and send blessings to their ancestors together. At the same time, "the living should cherish every day, don't live up to society and friends, and don't live up to their loved ones who have left forever." Because one day we will meet them. At that time, you can proudly say that you are a hero on earth and a ghost hero in the underworld! " According to the cultural logic of Taoism, the time and space of a year should be divided into upper and lower yin and yang. Moreover, Taoism in China believes that the three basic elements that breed all things in the world are heaven, earth and water. Therefore, Taoism regards the first half of the year as a celestial official and the second half as a local official. What needs to be explained here is that the "official" here does not refer to the official of human beings, but refers to the fragments in the process of time and space flow, similar to the official in China Weiqi. Taoism in China is mainly produced in the developed areas of agricultural civilization in China. Therefore, Taoism in China has always believed that heaven and earth are mysterious, everything is born on the earth, water is the foundation of everything, and the earth contains water. That is to say, because China's agricultural civilization pays attention to the important role of soil and water in human beings, China's Taoist cultural concept has always contained the "ontology", "epistemology" and "methodology" of observing the world with the earth as the center. According to this world view of Taoism, it is customary for Taoism to call the fifteenth day of the first month of the year "Tianguan" (the first half of the year) "Shangyuan Festival"; July 15 in the second half of the year is called "Mid-Autumn Festival"; Because the soil contains water and water acts on the soil, the middle of the second half of each year1October 15 is the "Next Yuan Festival". The upper, middle and lower elements constitute Taoism's systematic cognition of the trinity of the world. Taoism in China is different from many religions in the world. Many religions in the world are the unity of god and man, or pay attention to the trinity of "Tao into flesh" like Christianity, which makes religious communicators often highly deified. The purpose of Taoism's missionary work in China is clear. The disseminator of Taoism is not God, but man. Therefore, Taoism's dissemination of moral ethics is "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude". For people with high wisdom, the truth of Tao Te Ching is very clear. For those who are not wise enough or don't have much time to deeply reflect on their own moral and ethical construction, they write stories to explain the truth. "Education through fun" is a missionary method originated from Taoism in China. In fact, the Mid-Autumn Festival of Taoism in China is mainly a festival to spread morality and ethics, that is, to advocate people to pay attention to Xiu De on this day. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, people who have ideas and time will get together to study Laozi's Tao Te Ching, communicate with each other and reflect on themselves. For the general congregation, Taoism has created some stories to "entertain and educate". For example, Taoism invented a man named Chen Zi Prayer who married the daughter of the Dragon King and gave birth to three children on the 15th of the first month, 15th of July and 15th of October respectively. These "three officials" are responsible for the three tasks of blessing, forgiving evil and relieving misfortune. They have infinite power, and they will travel around the world in these three days to check whether people's moral quality is good or bad. However, Taoism in China is a very tolerant religion, which always gives people opportunities to change and renew themselves. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is not only a festival of rewarding good and punishing evil, but also a festival of atonement. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a festival of repentance and atonement in China. People who have been guilty for one year can go through various ceremonies. Buddhism calls it the legend of "Orchid Festival". A man named Mulian dreamed that his dead mother was reduced to the ranks of hungry ghosts. So, he gave his mother a meal, but he failed repeatedly. Manglietia told the Buddha about it, and the Buddha advised him to support the monks to do more good deeds to alleviate her mother's sin in the underworld. Manglietia made an urn on July 15 (Brahma means "saving upside down"), so Buddhist monks collectively recited scriptures for Manglietia's mother, freeing her from her misery. It can be seen that the Bones Festival on July 15th in Buddhism has two meanings, one is to educate people to support religious monks, and the other is to educate people to do more good deeds to transcend the sins of their ancestors and advocate filial piety. In addition to setting up fasting for monks, the China custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival has also increased activities such as repentance and opening the flame. On this day, the host's seat and Shigu Station were set up in front of Jiekou Village in advance. There is a bodhisattva in front of the mage's seat, crossing the ghost king of hell, and there is a plate of peach rice below for ancestor worship. On the stone drum stage, there are three spiritual cards and a spiritual lifting device. After noon, every household put whole pigs, whole sheep, chickens, ducks and geese and all kinds of steamed cakes, fruits and melons on the stone drum stage. The person in charge inserted a triangular paper flag of blue, red and green on each sacrifice, and wrote the words "Lansheng Festival" and "Ganlu Gate Open". The ceremony began with solemn temple music. Then the mage rang the bell and led the monks under the seat to recite various spells and mantras. Then feed, spread a plate of peaches and rice in all directions and repeat it three times. This ceremony is called "the opening of the flame". At night, families burn incense in front of their own houses and put incense on the ground. The more incense, the better, symbolizing a bumper harvest. This is called "running wild". In some places, there are water lanterns. The so-called water lamp, tied to a small wooden board, is mostly made of colored paper in the shape of lotus, which is called "flood and drought lamp". According to tradition, water lanterns are used to guide those who do bad things. The lights went out, and the water lights completed the task of attracting ghosts across the bridge. Shops were closed that day to make way for ghosts. In the middle of the street, there is a sweet case every 100 steps, with fresh fruit and a kind of "ghost steamed stuffed bun" on it. There is a Taoist behind the desk singing a ghost song that people can't understand. This ceremony is called "singing".