July in Guangxi 14 Why kill ducks?

Reasons for killing ducks in July 14 in Guangxi: According to legend, the dead ancestors were separated by a "Nai River" in the underworld, so they had to kill ducks for sacrifice. Many bridges will cause traffic jams, so they have to cross the river. Only the ducks raised at home can swim, so they are required to carry sacrifices across the river.

Statement 2: The homonym of "duck" is "pressure", and eating duck can suppress ghosts who come to eat on this day. Chicken feet are rake-shaped, and it is easy to catch ghosts' clothes (probably because they are afraid of accumulating ill feelings and refuse to return), so it is reasonable to choose flat-footed ducks.

Statement 3: The chicken can't be served on the table, because the chicken's feet will be dug back and the money will be dug out by the chicken's feet, so the mind of future generations will not be passed on to our ancestors, so our future generations are not guaranteed, so this task is handed over to the duck. Saying 4: Mid-Autumn Festival is the season when ducks grow up. Because people in ancient times lived in poverty, they were only willing to kill ducks on festivals. Therefore, on the "Ghost Festival", every household will kill ducks to eat, and over time it has formed a tradition.

Other customs of Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangxi

On July 14 and 15 of the lunar calendar, there is a custom of offering sacrifices to river gods (putting grapefruit lights into the river at night), and the ceremony lasts about 2-3 hours. In order to worship the river god, people made a beautifully decorated hut with wooden boards, which was two meters long, more than one meter wide and one meter high. Insert candles and things like that in a small paper house. The function of river lanterns is to drown ghosts and other ghosts in Purdue water.

In addition, there is a custom of "burning steamed stuffed buns", which is generally to worship ancestors first and then burn clothes for ghosts. Food and wine for ancestor worship must be put in a flat basket, which means that wild ghosts are not allowed to rob them. In July and a half, ghosts scurry around. In addition to worshipping ancestors at home and in ancestral temples, most people in Guangxi have to go outside to worship ghosts, write the names of their ancestors on the sacrifices for their ancestors, and attach the words "GREAT GHOST boy, with the same name and surname, don't (don't) rob" to prepare some Mingbi to burn to ghosts.