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The custom origin of July and a half and the legend of couplets.
The Mid-Autumn Festival, commonly known as Ghost Festival, shi gu, and July and a half, is called the Bonin Festival in Buddhism. New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Chung Yeung Festival are traditional festivals for ancestor worship in China, and they are also traditional cultural festivals popular in various countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. The Mid-Autumn Festival has the custom of setting off river lanterns and burning paper ingots.

Chaozhou people's native place is Chaoshan, Guangdong Province. The influx of people is full of pioneering spirit. As early as the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, some people crossed the ocean and set up a business in Nanyang Islands. After the opening of Hong Kong, chaozhou people followed.

With the overseas development of Chaoshan people, the Yulan Victory Club, a folk custom with a long history, originated in Chinese mainland, was spread to Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. 1866, Hong Kong hipsters Gao Manhua, Chen Huanrong, Chen Dianchen, Cai Jieshi, etc. founded the "South-North Bank Office".

At the end of the 19th century, almost all coolies (also known as "Guli") employed by the sugar factory under the British merchant Jardine's Foreign Firm (commonly known as "Jardine's Sugar House", located in Denglongzhou, Hong Kong Island, now Paterson Street, Causeway Bay) were chaozhou people. With the joint efforts of chaozhou people and British manager Jardine Dian, the first victory meeting was held in 1897, in which monks were invited to recite sutras and turn over their lonely souls. On behalf of the foreign firm, they applied to the then Secretary for Home Affairs of the Chinese people for filing a case and named it "Chaozhou Gonghetang".

As a result, "Chaozhou Gonghetang" holds the Yulan Victory Festival in July of the lunar calendar every year, and it has reached 1 12 sessions so far, with the scale from small to large and the influence expanding day by day.