What's the difference between Hanyi Festival and Zhongyuan Festival?

Tomb-Sweeping Day, Hanyi Festival and Zhongyuan Festival are all ghost festivals in China, and they are all related to sacrifice. Although their festival significance is related to ancestor worship, there are great differences between each festival. What's the difference between Hanyi Festival and Zhongyuan Festival? If you want to know the difference between Hanyi Festival and Zhongyuan Festival, please take a look at my introduction.

The difference between Hanyi Festival and Zhongyuan Festival

1, time is different. Hanyi Festival is on the first day of October in the lunar calendar, and Zhongyuan Festival is on the fifteenth day of July in the lunar calendar.

2. Different cultural customs. The Cold Clothes Festival, also known as October Festival and Ghost Festival, originated from the story of Meng Jiangnu looking for her husband to send cold clothes. On this day, people will put on warm clothes and give them to their parents and lovers. Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as July 30th and Orchid Festival, is a folk festival to worship ancestors. On this day, people will kill ducks and set off river lanterns to reward their hard work.

What's the difference between Hanyi Festival and Zhongyuan Festival?

1, Cold Clothes Festival

Hanyi Festival, also known as "October Dynasty", "Ancestor Festival" and "Ghost Festival", is a traditional sacrificial festival in China, which is said to have originated from the Zhou Dynasty. On this day, special attention is paid to paying homage to those who died first, which is called sending cold clothes. It is also a day to give send warm clothes to parents, lovers and other caring people. In history, there are many legends about Hanyi Festival, such as:

According to legend, in the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor in Nanjing. In order to conform to the weather, he held a ceremony of "giving clothes" on the first day of October, and made hot soup with freshly harvested red beans and glutinous rice for ministers to taste. The "Cold Clothes Festival" came from this. When people put on clothes to keep out the cold, they also send winter clothes to wanderers who are guarding the border, doing business and studying in other places to show their concern and care.

In the story of Meng Jiangnu's long journey to find her husband to send cold clothes, the first day of the tenth lunar month is called "Cold Clothes Festival" inside and outside the Great Wall. "Burning cold clothes on the first day of October" has long been a custom in the north to mourn the deceased relatives.

2. Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, commonly known as July 30, is called Orchid Festival by Buddhism. Legend has it that all the ghosts were released to the underworld on that day, and people usually carry out activities to sacrifice ghosts.

It is a traditional folk custom in China that the ancients set off river lanterns on Mid-Autumn Festival, and Taoist priests set up prayers. Buddhism and Taoism have different interpretations of the significance of this festival, and Taoism emphasizes filial piety. Buddhism, on the other hand, focuses on the "Purdue" of ghosts and ghosts released from the underworld. Sacrificial activities are held with wine, meat, sugar cakes, fruits and other sacrifices on selected days to comfort many ghosts who are playing on earth and pray for their peace 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 Venerable Buddha to place high platforms, or invite artists to play Zhong Kui, the exorcist, so as to eliminate the rage of the deceased.

River lanterns are also called "lotus lanterns". Generally, lights or candles are placed on the base, and they are placed in rivers, lakes and seas during the Mid-Autumn Festival, allowing them to float. The function of river lanterns is to drown ghosts and other ghosts in Purdue water.

Compared with mainland China, Japanese, Malaysian, Singaporean and Thai regions are also deeply influenced by China's traditional culture.

During the period of Asuka, the Orchid Festival was introduced to Japan from China during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, commonly known as "ぉぼん". The Japanese attached great importance to the Bonihara Festival, and the company usually took a "Bonihara holiday", so many Japanese who worked outside the home used this holiday to return to China to worship their ancestors.