What festival is the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month?

The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is the Mid-Autumn Festival.

July 15th refers to the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, which is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Taoism calls it Mid-Autumn Festival, Buddhism calls it Orchid Festival, and now it is also commonly known as Ghost Festival. The Taoist name of Mid-Autumn Festival is called July 30th in folklore. Festival customs mainly include offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper ingots and offering sacrifices to the land.

Its birth 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 reward the earth in early autumn. Some crops are ripe, so people should worship their ancestors according to regulations and report Qiu Cheng to their ancestors with new rice and other sacrifices. It is a traditional cultural festival to commemorate ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors and do filial piety.

Customized activities

People believe that ancestors will go home to visit their children in July and a half, so they need to worship their ancestors. This kind of ancestor worship is the embodiment of the traditional ethics of being cautious and pursuing the distance, and it is also a cultural tradition of being grateful for morality. When crops are harvested in autumn, the joy of harvest is just shared with ancestors. Worship ceremonies are usually held in the evening of mid-July.

Worship your ancestors at ordinary times, and generally don't move their tablets. When offering sacrifices to ancestors in July and a half, we should invite out the ancestral tablets one by one, respectfully put them on the sacrificial table, then burn incense in front of each ancestor's tablet and have tea and rice three times a day. Due to the slightly different customs in different places, the ways of festivals are not the same, and the time of festivals will be different. Every night on July 14 or 15, we will burn incense and set off firecrackers outside the door, and at the same time "burn bags" (also called "recommended bags").

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