What is the Mid-Autumn Festival?

Mid-Autumn Festival is the name of Taoism, which is called July 30 and July 14 in folklore and ancestor worship 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 birth 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.

Literary narration

The Mid-Autumn Festival or Yulan Festival has been mentioned in literary works such as Yan Family Instructions in the Northern Qi Dynasty, Records of Jingchu Years in the Southern Dynasty, Tokyo Dreams in the Song Dynasty, Liang Dreams in the Qing Dynasty and Records of Emperor Years in the Qing Dynasty. According to the Book of Scriptures, "In mid-July, the local officials surrendered, and the good and evil on earth were decided, so the Taoist priests chanted scriptures at night and the hungry prisoners were freed.

According to historical documents, autumn ancestor worship activities existed in the pre-Qin period. The custom of ancestor worship in July and a half is the product of local culture, and inclusive festivals are more complicated. It is not only an autumn festival for ancestor worship, but also the Mid-Autumn Festival of Taoism and the Bonin Festival of Buddhism. The folk, Taoism and monks are integrated.

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