What are the customs of Mid-Autumn Festival? Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China. The seventh month of the lunar calendar is mysterious and dark, and this festival can be traced back to ancient times. We often rely on the blessing of the gods. What are the customs about Mid-Autumn Festival?
What are the customs of Mid-Autumn Festival? 1 1, and Purdue in July and a half?
Although the Mid-Autumn Festival is in July and the main activity is on July 15th, there are thirty-six Putin in Licheng District of Quanzhou. If they are all held on July 15, it will be very inconvenient to buy food, hold banquets, perform, treat guests and hold banquets. Therefore, after discussion by the elders, 36 Putin's Purdue will be held from July/KLOC-0 to July 30, respectively.
Therefore, in July, the old Licheng district was full of festival feasts, and the whole July was busy making Purdue. After consultation and arrangement, Houcheng made Purdue on the first day of July, and then the shops took turns to do it. Until July 30th.
2. Sacrifice Kuixing
On this day, scholars in Yonghe County offered sacrifices to Kuixing. The shepherd family in Zhangzi County slaughtered sheep in the Mid-Autumn Festival, competing with the gods. It is said that this can increase the output of sheep. Meat is also given to relatives, while those who are poor and have no sheep use steamed noodles in the shape of sheep instead. Farmers in Yangcheng county make cats, tigers and grains from wheat crumbs and sacrifice them in the fields, which is called "going to the fields". People in Mayi County take wheat flour as the shape of children in the Mid-Autumn Festival, named "Mianren", and give each other children from relatives. Farmers in Xinxian County hang colored paper on the stalks of fields on the Mid-Autumn Festival.
3. Sheep Festival
The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is also called "Sheep Festival". Xu Shen said in Shuo Wen Jie Zi: "Sheep are auspicious." In Oracle Bone Inscriptions's Oracle Bone Inscriptions, it's also called "sheep lead good luck". It can be seen that in ancient times, sheep always represented auspiciousness. In the rural areas of old Beijing and North China, the custom of grandpa and uncle sending live sheep to their nephews on July 15th was widely spread among the people, and it gradually evolved into sending a sheep to the other side.
Before July 15th, dough sculpture activities were very popular among folk women, especially in northern Shanxi. A steamed stuffed bun shop, neighbors came to help. First of all, according to the actual number of families, give everyone a big bag first. The steamed stuffed bun for the younger generation should be kneaded into a flat shape, which is called a noodle sheep. I hope that the younger generation will not forget the kindness of their parents. The steamed bread of the older generation should be made into human form and called dough figurines.
It means that children and grandchildren are full of happiness and longevity; Steamed buns for peers should be shaped like fish, called noodle fish, which means more than one year. It's not so strict now. There are all kinds of steamed buns, such as sheep, tigers, cows, fish, rabbits and people, depending on the owner's taste. After each animal's steamed bread is kneaded, there will be many steamed bread in the shape of melon, fruit, peach, plum, lotus, chrysanthemum and plum, which are decorated with flowers, birds, butterflies, dragonflies and squirrels.
Smaller than before, as a gift for visiting relatives and friends. These dough sculptures look lifelike after being steamed and colored in five colors, and each piece is an excellent handicraft. Watching dough figurines on July 15 has become a program for peasant women to show off their dexterity.
4. Worship ancestors first
The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is a traditional Mid-Autumn Festival and an important festival for ancestor worship. Mid-Autumn Festival, New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Chung Yeung Festival (except Tomb-Sweeping Day and September) are the four major festivals of ancestor worship in China.
Mid-Autumn Festival is usually held at noon that day. Every family has prepared rich dishes, wine and rice. In their respective halls, the tables of the Eight Immortals are filled with 24 full-flavored seats, seven pairs of chopsticks, a pot of wine and seven cups. Put a fruit box in the middle. Fruit boxes are generally hexagonal wood carvings.
The plate is also carved into a rectangle with six squares on it. Six vegetarian dishes, such as mushrooms, fungus, Tricholoma matsutake, day lily, dried bamboo shoots and red dates, are placed in the grid, commonly known as "Liuweizhai". As mentioned earlier, Dongshi Yuji Boat Line specially built a set of sacrificial vessels made of tin plates, such as banquet bowls, wine bottles and cups, to show piety and attach importance to ancestor worship.
When the banquet is set, the host lights three incense sticks, two red candles, incense sticks, bows down as a ceremony, and invites ancestors to enjoy the sacrificial banquet, hoping to bless the health, peace and prosperity of future generations. And stop to ask for permission before burning gold and silver coins. The banquet can't be withdrawn until the golden paper is burned out.
5, burning paper, ghost fate
Residents of Wuxian County fold gold ingots with tin foil during the Mid-Autumn Festival and burn them along the road, which is called "ghost fate". There is still a kind of paper ghost circulating in Yizheng county, which contains bowl lamps, gamblers, drunkards and senior officials. There are four boats in the Zhongyuan Festival River in Yixing County, one is the flame mouth, the other is the Buddha chanting, the other is the tin foil ingot burning, and the other is the river lantern. On this day, villagers in Dong Xian eat flat food, which is a dustpan-shaped food made of flour and sugar. When releasing river lanterns in Shanghai, the stern is decorated with red and green paper lanterns, which is called "Dugu".
In Sichuan province, there is a custom of burning paper to worship ancestors in the Central Plains. That is, a stack of paper money is sealed in a small envelope, and the name and title of the recipient, the number of envelopes received, and the name and time of the silk changer are written on the envelope. It is said that the Gate of Ghost was closed on July 15, and all families had to "send their children to Shigu". Chengdu people tied a "flower tray" with paper, put paper money and fruit offerings on it, and walked around the room, saying, "Dear friends, neighbors, former residents, ghosts who can't bear to go back, please put on the flower tray and send you back!" After that, the back end is incinerated outside the house.
What are the customs of Mid-Autumn Festival? 2. The origin of Mid-Autumn Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival, New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Double Ninth Festival are also called the four traditional festivals for ancestor worship in China. Most people miss their loved ones on this festival and place good wishes for the future. Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Ghost Festival or Orchid Festival, falls on July 15th and 14th of the lunar calendar. It is said that in the Mid-Autumn Festival, ghosts in the underworld will be released. In order to pay homage to ancestors and local officials, the dead will prepare rich sacrifices, burn incense and paper, and worship these ancestors from the underworld.
Taoist Mid-Autumn Festival is not only a religious festival in Taoism, but also a folk festival. At the beginning of Taoism, there were three officials worshipping. The orthodox school believed in the three officials of heaven, earth and water, and was later called the Three Officials Emperor. They each have their own responsibilities. Celestial officials bless Shangyuan, local officials forgive the sins of the Central Plains, and water officials call Xia Yuan Jieyi. The Taoist book says that in these three days, the three officials should correct the crimes committed on earth in order to decide rewards and punishments.
Among them, the local officials are in charge of the underworld, and of course the focus of the inspection is on ghosts. So on this day, all ghosts will leave the underworld and be examined. On this day, Doumen held a routine ceremony to celebrate the birthday of local officials. At the same time, believers also funded fasting, prayed for the blessing of their ancestors, and asked local officials to forgive their sins and ascend to heaven as soon as possible. This is the main reason why Mid-Autumn Festival has become a folk festival.
Mid-Autumn Festival is a product of local culture. It existed in Liang Wudi and matured in the Song Dynasty. The official of the Tang Dynasty advocated formalizing the three-day festival of Shangyuan, Zhongyuan and Xia Yuan, and made it a three-day festival to pray for Emperor Xuanyuan (Tai Shang Lao Jun and Lao Zi). The emperor led hundreds of officials to attend the festival ceremony. After the Tang and Song Dynasties, it has become a folk festival.
Second, the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival.
Every July, people hold a grand celebration, and all over the country, whether in commercial areas or residential areas, you can see red paper celebrating the Central Plains, decorated with lanterns and set up altars to reward the gods. Purdue ceremony is the most important part of Mid-Autumn Festival, which can be roughly divided into street sacrifice, city sacrifice and temple fair.
Pudu, which is dominated by blocks, is called "street Pupu", Pudu, which is dominated by markets, is called "city Pupu", and Pudu, which is dominated by temple abbots, is called "temple Pupu". Purdue is usually centered on temples, and nearby residents go to temples with sacrifices. Many people also put sacrificial tables in front of their homes, display sacrifices and hang paper lanterns under the eaves.
Sacrificing ancestors is one of the customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on July 15th of the lunar calendar, so it is called "July 30" for short. However, the worship ceremony is usually held in the evening before the end of July, and is not limited to a specific day. Usually, you should worship your ancestors and generally don't move their tablets. When the time comes to sacrifice, we should invite out the ancestral tablets one by one and respectfully put them on a special table for worship.
Then burn incense in front of each ancestor's memorial tablet, and serve tea and rice three times a day in the morning, noon and coma until July 30. If there is a portrait of your ancestors, please come out and hang it. When worshipping, kowtow to each ancestor in the order of seniority and seniority, and pray silently for their peace and happiness.
Choose to leave it dark when sending it back. Generally, the head of the family and the men in the family take firecrackers, paper money and incense sticks, find a quiet river or pond, and lay a circle with lime to mark the restricted area. Then pour some water and rice in the circle, burn some paper money and clothes, burn paint, set off firecrackers, and send our ancestors on their way back to the "underworld"
Now, the custom of ancestor worship in Mid-Autumn Festival has been simplified, and most areas begin to hold ancestor worship ceremonies on the evening of the 15th or 14th day of the seventh lunar month. The ancestor worship ceremony has also been simplified, gradually eliminating the superstitious color and retaining the memorial form as a memory and commemoration of the ancestors.
What are three things you can't do in Mid-Autumn Festival?
1, name. Don't wear clothes embroidered with your own name at night, so as not to be possessed by Shen Yuan. In addition, it is best to avoid calling others by their first and last names. Otherwise, once a good brother hears it, he will take the opportunity to take his three souls and six souls. At the same time, if he hears someone calling his name, don't look back or respond immediately.
2. Don't pat your shoulders. From the perspective of spiritualism, a person has three fires, one on his head and the other on his shoulder. Therefore, it is best not to pat others on the head and shoulders casually during the ghost month, so as not to pour fire on him and give good brothers an opportunity.
3. Don't whistle. When you pass the cemetery, you should keep saying "Sorry to bother you!" "And keep solemn, don't whistle, to show respect for good brothers.
4, don't go to dangerous waters to play with water, the legendary "water ghost" will find someone to be a scapegoat for reincarnation.
Don't steal sacrifices and compete with ghosts for food, for fear of bad luck.
6, the bedside does not hang the wind chimes, because the wind chimes will attract yin; I don't play disc fairy either. Don't plant banyan trees that are easy to get stuck in the shade in front of your house. In addition, don't hang wind chimes at home, don't play with disc fairy, and don't go to Yin Temple, which can reduce the possibility of Yin qi getting into the upper body.
7, go to the wild or remote places at night, people with light personality are afraid of bumping into good brothers.
8. Don't pick up change and red envelopes on the ground. Don't pick up the money on the roadside casually, because it may be a good brother's, otherwise it will be used for ghost weddings.
9. When passing through the funeral place, there should be no disrespectful thoughts or words in your mouth and heart.
The origin of the Mid-Autumn festival
1. The story of Manglietia saved auricularia auricula is widely circulated among the people: "People with Manglietia are powerful. His mother fell into the hungry ghost road, and the food mouth turned into flames. Hunger was too bitter. Unable to save his mother, Mu Lian asked the Buddha for advice. In order to talk about the Lanpen Sutra, she taught July 15th to make a Lanpen to save her mother. " China followed this practice from the Liang Dynasty and became the Mid-Yuan Festival. But later, in addition to setting a fast for monks, activities such as repentance and setting fire to burners were added.
There are many legends about Mid-Autumn Festival. The most important thing is that Yan Luowang opens the gate of hell on the first day of the seventh lunar month every year, releasing a group of ghosts who are not worshipped to enjoy people's sacrifices among the dead. On the last day of July, these ghosts had to return to the underworld before the gate of hell closed again. So July is also called ghost month.
What do you eat in Mid-Autumn Festival all over the country?
1, Dongguan has the custom of eating Seto powder, which is almost common in Dongguan. Of course, different areas eat Seto powder in different ways. Like Changping, they like to make soup in the mountains, and the black soup base is the biggest feature of local Seto powder.
In Guancheng, there is nothing special about eating Seto powder on Orchid Festival, especially since many people in Laoguancheng used to know how to sing Muyu songs (some towns and villages also have this custom). Imagine that in this day that does not belong to the deceased, the seemingly absent and rhythmic wooden fish songs came from the streets and lanes, which really added a bit of mystery to this strange festival.
2. On July 15, Nanpi County of Hebei Province brought fruits, bacon, wine and money. Sacrifice in the graves of ancestors. It is called "recommending new things" to hold a hemp valley to a field stalk. The Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangping County offers fresh food to worship ancestors, and prepares fruits and vegetables and steamed sheep for grandchildren, which is called "sending sheep".
On July 15, Qinghe County went to the grave to pay a sacrifice and offer steamed sheep to her daughter. In Shanxi, there is a Mid-Autumn Festival where people steam noodles to eat. The shepherd family in Zhangzi County slaughtered sheep in the Mid-Autumn Festival, competing with the gods. It is said that this can increase the output of sheep. Meat is also given to relatives, while those who are poor and have no sheep use steamed noodles in the shape of sheep instead.
3. Jiangsu province wants to eat plain food. Residents in Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province folded ingots with tin foil and burned them along the way, which is called "ghost fate". There is still a kind of paper ghost circulating in Yizheng county, which contains bowl lamps, gamblers, drunkards and senior officials.
There are four boats in the Zhongyuan Festival River in Yixing County, one is to set off fireworks, the other is to carry Buddha women to recite Buddha, the other is to burn tin foil ingots, and the other is to set off river lanterns. On this day, villagers in Dong Xian eat flat food, which is a dustpan-shaped food made of flour and sugar. When releasing river lanterns in Shanghai, the stern is decorated with red and green paper lanterns, which are called "degrees".