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The golden wind sent Shuang to Oban, and the incense candles were all over the shore beach.
The sky is covered with green smoke, and the old and young in the world hope for peace.
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Zhongyuan Festival, commonly known as ghost festival, shi lonely, july and a half
Buddhism is called obon
It is related to the Chinese New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival, and Chongyang Festival
It forms a traditional Chinese ancestor worship festival
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the Shangyuan Festival, celebrating the Lantern Festival
July 15 is called the Middle Yuan Festival, which is dedicated to the ancestors
October 15 is called the Next Yuan Festival
Eat cold food, commemorate the sages
The Zhongyuan Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar
In some areas on July 14
The Mid-Yuan Festival coincides with the small autumn and the crops are ripe
Folk use new rice as a tribute to ancestors
Rituals are performed during the offering
On July 15, we go to the grave to visit the grave and worship our ancestors
According to legend, the middle of the day
The Yin Cao Mansion will release all the ghosts
Ghost sacrifices are widely practiced in the folk
Whoever has a new bereaved person shall go to a new grave
Ordinary people worship ancestors and sacrifice lonely ghosts
This is one of the largest festivals of chinese folk sacrifice
It is said that man dies three times,
The first was the cessation of the heartbeat, the death of biology;
The second was a funeral, quietly departing in the social network;
The third time was that no one remembered anymore and left permanently.
Remember the memories of love before they disappear,
Probably the biggest significance of this festival.
Jun buried the mud under the spring, and I sent the snow to the world
Yin and yang are separated, the farthest distance in the world
Somewhere, here, there will never be a time to see each other
Only one long lamp can be lit
Hopefully, it will illuminate the way for those who have left to come
festival
origin
The Four Festivals of the Ancients.
The four sacrificers, born of the four hours,
And the sacrifice of its ancestral parents also.
Ancestral Hall in spring, summer in the temple, autumn in taste, winter steaming.
——Han Dong Zhongshu, "Spring and Autumn Dew and Four Sacrifices"
The "Zhongyuan Festival" comes from the ancient festival of the time
At first there was no definite date for the "autumn taste"
Later, it was gradually fixed around July 15
It is generally the first full moon after the autumn
Autumn is a time of new gloom
It is a good choice for sacrificing the undead
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Ghost Festival legends
Legend has it that every year from the beginning of July together
Yama ordered the gates of hell to be opened
Let those who suffer all year round be imprisoned
The ghosts of the wronged in hell come out of hell
Get a short wandering and enjoy the blood food of the world
That's why people call July ghost month
July is considered an unlucky month
Neither marry nor move
July 15, on the other hand, is exclusive to Chinese
The annual "Ghost Festival" in the middle of the yuan
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Origin of Taoism
Zhongyuan Festival was originally a Taoist festival
The blessed celestial official in charge
The fifteenth birthday of the first month is the first day of the first month
The magistrate in charge of pardoning sins among themselves
July 15th birthday, for the Middle Yuan Festival
The water officer in charge of the inter-estranged affairs
October 15th birthday, is the next yuan day
So on July 15th, the magistrate celebrated his birthday
Amnesty for lonely ghosts, folk dojos
Put the steamed buns for the lone ghost to eat
On this day, ancestors are worshipped, graves are placed, and lotus lamps are lit
Illuminate the way home for the dead
The Taoist Temple holds a grand festival to pray for good fortune and good fortune
For the sake of the souls of the dead, may they rest in peace soon
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Origins of Buddhism
Buddhists on July 15
Held the "Obon Festival"
Fill the pot with the five fruits of The Taste
Dedicated to Buddhas and monks
Jidu six suffering sentient beings
As well as thanking parents for their long-term love
This ritual originated from the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Mulian Mother
Legend has it that Shakyamuni Buddha had a disciple named Mu lian
Her mother did many bad things before she died
After death, he became an evil ghost and was tortured
Mu Lian couldn't bear it, so he prayed to the Buddha to make it clear
Every year in the middle of July, there are five fruits with a hundred flavors
Placed in a basin, offering to the monks of the Ten Directions
With this merit, its mother can be saved
Mu Lian acted according to the Buddha's will, and his mother was finally liberated
mores
Put river lights
River lamps, also known as "lotus lamps", are generally placed on the base of the lamp or candle, placed in the rivers, lakes and seas in the middle of the new year, let it drift.
Legend has it that river lights are placed on the water to guide the ghosts of the dead.
ancestor worship
Before and after the summer, there will be folk activities to celebrate Zhongyuan, commonly known as "Making July And a Half" or "Zhongyuan Festival". Today, it has become a major event time for ancestor worship.
Burn street clothes
As soon as they enter the seventh month of the lunar calendar, people will bring incense candles, gold and silver clothing paper and some sacrifices such as tofu and white rice to the roadside after it is dark.
The purpose of people's "burning street clothes" is to let those orphaned souls have clothes to protect themselves from the cold and food to wrap their stomachs.
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Pray for a good harvest
The sacrifice of lone souls on the Middle Yuan Festival is often associated with the hope of a good harvest.
On the night of the orphan, families burn incense in front of their homes to pray for a bumper rice harvest, and plant incense sticks on the ground, which is called "cloth field" (planting seedlings), and the more planted, the better, thus symbolizing the abundance of rice harvest in autumn.
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Eat duck
On the fifteenth day of the 15th month of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, many places in the country will choose to eat duck.
Why? It turns out that "duck" is "pressure", taking its harmonic sound, and eating duck is to suppress ghosts. Dongguan people generally eat lotus root stewed duck.
Eat sesame powder
On the day of the Zhongyuan Festival, Dongguan has the custom of eating sesame powder, and it is common throughout Dongguan.
Of course, the method of eating sesame powder is still different in different areas.
Steamed noodle sheep
In the old Beijing and North China, legend has it that this custom is related to the legend of agarwood splitting the mountain to save the mother.
After Agarwood split the mountain to save his mother, he wanted to hunt down and kill his uncle Erlang God, who abused his mother, and in order to restore the friendship between his brother and sister and his uncle and nephew, he sent a pair of live sheep to Agarwood every July 15, which is said to be the harmonic sound of the surname of Erlang God and Agarwood's mother "Yang" to reunite the good of the two families.
Since then, the folk have left the custom of sending live sheep by uncles, which gradually evolved into sending a pair of sheep.
Eat flower buns
Before the 15th festival of July, folk women practiced face sculpture activities, which were the most intense in the northern Jin dynasty. A steamed bun, neighbors came to help. First of all, according to the actual number of people in the family, give each person a big flower bun first.
The flower bun given to the junior should be kneaded into a flat shape, called the face sheep, which means that the lamb eats milk and kneels on both knees, hoping that the junior will not forget the parenting grace of the parents; The flower bun given to the elderly should be pinched into an adult form, called a noodle person, which means that the children and grandchildren are full of halls, and the blessings and life are complete; The flower buns given to the peers should be kneaded into a fish shape, called noodle fish, which means more than one year.
Poetry
Zhongyuan Zuo
Don Lee Shang-yin
Descending festivals fluttered to the palace country, and zhongyuan worshiped Shangqing Hui.
The sheep power must be stripped of gold bars, and Wen Yu will eventually be a jade mirror platform.
Will sleep and smell the rain, do not know how to get lost for the blossoming.
There are not far away from Yingzhou, how the green finches are birds.
Zhongyuan Night Sent Companion
Don TortoiseMon
The orange wind dew has been cleared, and Mr. Dongguo's illness has not been removed.
The lone pillow is easy to break dreams, and the short eaves are rare to swallow the book.
Guangyun Phi Rijun should be close, and the reflection planting flowers I am still sparse.
Only the envy of the feathers is like water, and the flat and empty steps are empty.
Zhongyuan Night Hundred Flowers Continent
Northern Song Dynasty Fan Zhongyun
Nanyang Taishou Qing was furious, and he did not enjoy the moon before the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Hundred flowers in the continent of night forgetfulness, green sycamore silent dew smooth.
Tianxue blue sea spits pearls, and cold radiance shoots treasure stars dou shu.
Looking at the human world downstairs, Yingran is in the Qingyu pot.
The heat has never been unavoidable, and it is providence to be cool this evening.
A flute blows out the clouds, and the host is drunk.
The guest drunkenly danced and sang after me, and the fluffy dance was like the old Ho.
The middle element section has a feeling
Qing Wang Kaitai
The dojo Purdue Ghost, the original Obangu is intended to exist.
But blame the red note sticker door head, Roshan wine Haiqing Zhongyuan.
The dead are gone, the living are like this
May heaven and earth be all right
Rong Media Editor: Wang Shutong
Editor-in-Charge: Lan Ling