The saying of the older generation is to avoid bumping into ghosts. In order to avoid being caught by water ghosts as body double, you should be careful when walking by the water, and you'd better not go. It is said that this day is the day when the yin is the heaviest, and there will be a legendary nocturnal walk of ghosts. The Ghost Club will pass by Naihe Bridge with red lanterns and hundreds of ghosts. It is magnificent and magnificent. The Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the Orchid Festival. People will do all kinds of sacrificial activities, such as lighting river lanterns and burning paper.
The Lantern Festival evolved from Shangyuan Festival, which is a festival for people, a ghost festival, a lantern festival on land, and a lantern festival in the river to pray for the dead. There are also many precautions on the day of Ghost Festival, and people are generally not allowed to go out at night. Even if you see someone worshipping God or offering sacrifices to their loved ones on the road, you can't step on the ground to worship items. Don't go to places with plenty of water, walk slowly when burning the midnight oil, and so on.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is introduced in detail:
The Mid-Autumn Festival is the name of Taoism, which is called July and a half in folk customs, and is called the Bonin Festival in Buddhism. 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 birth 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.
It is a traditional cultural festival in memory of ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors and do filial piety. "July 30" was originally a folk ancestor worship festival in ancient times, but it was called "Zhongyuan Festival", which originated from Taoism after the Eastern Han Dynasty. Buddhism calls July and a half the "Bonin Festival". In a certain sense, the ancestor worship festival in July and a half belongs to folk customs, the Mid-Autumn Festival belongs to Taoism, and the Bonin Festival belongs to Buddhism.