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Why do you go to bed early on Mid-Autumn Festival?

I didn't say that I must go to bed early in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is the Mid-Autumn Festival. On this day, the gate of death in the underworld was opened and ghosts shuttled through the crowd. This is the heaviest time in Yin Qi. There are many taboos on this day, and I accidentally hit a ghost. Then, this issue of the lunar calendar will show you when to go to bed during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is the Mid-Yuan Festival, on which local officials forgive sins. In the evening, the ancients also went out to set off river lanterns and fire cannons for sacrifices, so there was no taboo custom of sleeping at certain times. Just pay attention to the rest time.

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The festival customs of Mid-Autumn Festival 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 as usual, offer sacrifices with new rice, and report to their ancestors about Qiu Cheng. This festival is a traditional cultural festival in memory of ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors and do filial piety.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival, many people will hold sacrificial activities with wine, meat, sugar cakes, fruits and other sacrifices between the first day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, in order to comfort the ghosts who are playing on earth and pray for their safety and success all the year round. More solemn even asked monks and Taoists to recite scriptures. During this period, some people will invite Buddha statues such as Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and Mulianzun to place high platforms, or invite artists to play the exorcist Zhong Kui (among them, artists are invited to manipulate Zhong Kui puppets) to eliminate the rage of the deceased.