Mid-Autumn Festival is a Taoist name, which is called July 30th and July 14 (another is called July 15) in folklore, and it is called Yulanben 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 ground.
Its appearance can be traced back to ancestor worship and related festivals in ancient times. July is auspicious month and filial month, and July 30 is a festival for people to celebrate the harvest and repay the earth in early autumn. Some crops are ripe, so people should worship their ancestors according to the law and report Qiu Cheng to them with new rice and other sacrifices. This festival is a traditional cultural festival to remember the ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect the ancestors and do filial piety.
Historical origin
In the Book of Changes, "seven" is a changing number and a resurrected number. I ching: "repeat the same thing and come back in seven days. It will be fine." Seventh, yang number and days. After the sun between heaven and earth is extinguished, it can be resurrected after seven days. This is the way of heaven and earth, the principle of yin-yang cycle. "Seven" also has mysterious colors, such as "seven stars" in the sky, "seven emotions" in human feelings and "seven colors" in colors.
Music has "seven tones", poetry has "seven methods", and the human body has "seven orifices" and so on. "Seven" is also a human life cycle. Education began at the age of seven, puberty began at the age of fourteen, and the body was fully mature at the age of twenty-one. Seven figures are staged in time among the people, and "July 7th" is often regarded as the final and resurrected game when calculating time. "July is an auspicious month, a filial month, and fourteen (erqi) is the cycle number of' seven'. The ancient people chose to worship their ancestors on July 14 (July 30), which was related to the resurrection number of "Seven".
This festival originated from the "July and a half" harvest in early autumn to worship ancestors. The appearance of "July 30" can be traced back to ancient ancestor worship and harvest festival. In ancient times, people often relied on the blessing of the gods to obtain a bumper harvest in agriculture. Worship ancestors in spring, summer, autumn and winter, but the "autumn flavor" in early autumn is very important. Autumn is the harvest season. People hold ceremonies to sacrifice the souls of ancestors, first offering the best seasonal products to the gods, and then tasting the fruits of these labors themselves, hoping for a bumper harvest in the coming year.
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