What's the difference between Mid-Autumn Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day? Which of the two festivals is Ghost Festival?

What's the difference between Mid-Autumn Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day?

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Tomb-Sweeping Day falls on April 4th of the Gregorian calendar every year, and the Mid-Autumn Festival falls on July 15 of the lunar calendar.

Differences in names

Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called "Walking Festival" and "Walking Festival". Mid-Autumn Festival is called Stone Drum Festival, Ghost Festival, Lonely Day and Local Officials' Day, and Buddhism is called Boni Festival.

The difference of sacrifice

Tomb-Sweeping Day mainly trims graves, mainly worshipping ancestors and sweeping graves. In Qingming, there are also the habits of hiking and planting trees. Mid-Autumn Festival is mainly about offering sacrifices and burning paper money.

Differences in origin

Tomb-Sweeping Day started in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from Liang Wudi in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and its history should be derived from Buddhism and the story of Mulian saving his mother. Mid-Autumn Festival is developed from Buddhist Orchid Club.

Which of the two festivals is Ghost Festival?

Tomb-Sweeping Day and the Mid-Autumn Festival are both called Ghost Festival, while Tomb-Sweeping Day, the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Cold Clothes Festival are called the three ghost festivals in China.

The main custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day is to worship ancestors, and there are other customs, such as inserting willow branches, flying kites, swinging, hiking, cuju, playing polo, shooting willow, and silkworm flower party (a unique folk culture in silkworm town, mainly in the south).

In Buddhism, July 15 is the day of orchid club, and its content is to cross over for the dead. The original intention of orchids is liberation and upside down, which comes from the story of Mulian saving her mother.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is the Christmas of the three officials, that is, the land officer of the Mid-Autumn Festival. On this day, Taoism will turn over the ancestors and pull the dead out. The so-called: God bless the people, the local officials release their sins, and the water officials solve problems.