The Mid-Yuan Festival is a ghost festival, so what are the Upper Yuan Festival and the Lower Yuan Festival?

Shangyuan Festival is the Lantern Festival on earth, and people decorate lanterns to celebrate it. The Central Plains comes from Shangyuan. People think that the Mid-Autumn Festival is a ghost festival, and lanterns should also be put on to celebrate the festival for ghosts. But people and ghosts are different, so the lights in the Central Plains are different from those in Shangyuan. People are yang, ghosts are yin; The earth is yang and the water is yin. The mysterious darkness underwater reminds people of the legendary hell, where ghosts sink. So Shangyuan's lamp is on land, and Zhongyuan's lamp is in water.

10 15 Lunar New Year, also known as "Xia Yuan Day" and "Xia Yuan Day". On this day, the Taoist temple is the Dojo, and people worship the dead, add soil to the grave and send cold clothes.

October 15th of the lunar calendar is a traditional folk festival in China, also known as "Xiayuan Festival" and "Xiayuan Festival". The origin of the next Yuan Festival is related to Taoism. Taoism has three officials, namely, heavenly officials, local officials, water officials and God bless the people. Local officials forgive sins, and water conservancy officials cancel Eritrea's debts. The dates of birth of these three officials are the 15th day of the first month, the 15th day of July and the 15th day of October of the lunar calendar. They are called Shangyuan Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Xiayuan Festival. The next Yuan Festival is the day when the water official released the Emperor Egu, which is called the Festival. According to the investigation, the water official recorded the release of Eritrea from heaven. "China Customs Records" also records: "October is the next Yuan Festival, and customs spread to Shuigongji City, and there are also people who fast and recite scriptures." On this day, Taoist temples were used as Dojo, where people offered sacrifices to the dead and prayed to the water officials of the next Yuan Dynasty to solve the problem. In ancient times, there were provisions in the imperial court prohibiting slaughter and postponing the execution date of death penalty. Song and Wu's "Dream": "On October 15th, on the day when the water official delivered Eritrea, the palace official visited the people, built a temple to build a car, or delivered Eritrea, or recommended death." And Hebei's "New Compilation of Xuanhua County Records": "When the customs spread, the water officials helped Eritrea, and the people also fasted." In addition, among the people, there is also the custom of offering sacrifices to the kitchen god by folk craftsmen on the next Yuan Festival. The furnace god is the old gentleman, probably from the furnace alchemy of Taoism.