What are the seven customs of Mid-Autumn Festival in Hunan?

The 15th day of the seventh lunar month is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in China. It is said that on this day, the door of the underworld is open, and thousands of souls return to the world at this time to enjoy the sacrifices prepared by strangers. Therefore, when the festival comes, every household in every place should prepare rich sacrifices and carry out corresponding sacrificial activities, which will form a custom over time. Then today's calendar will introduce you to the seven customs of Hunan Zhongyuan Festival.

Hunan people begin to pick up new dead guests on the seventh or tenth day of the seventh lunar month, and pick up old dead guests after the tenth day. There is a saying that "the first three are followed by seven", and tea is used instead of wine for three meals a day to treat each other with courtesy. Picking up dead guests is a very meticulous job, especially for those with old people at home, which is especially grand and the preparation is extremely meticulous and sufficient.

Worship utensils, such as tables, chairs, benches, tableware, incense burners and lamps, should be cleaned. Prepare sacrifices, paper money and incense sticks; Prepare rich dishes, in which roosters are essential, and even some promises to ancestors or things that ancestors explained in their dreams.

In Longhui, Hunan Province, the custom of picking up dead guests during the Mid-Autumn Festival is to pick up old guests at home on the eleventh night of the lunar calendar, and provide meals for three meals a day from the twelfth to fourteenth of the lunar calendar. Every meal must be fresh and meat dishes, and it must be three or five bowls of vegetables, even numbers are not accepted.

River lanterns are also called "lotus lanterns". Generally speaking, river lanterns will put lights or candles on their bases and put them in rivers, lakes and oceans during the Mid-Autumn Festival to make them float. The purpose of the Mid-Autumn Festival lantern is to drown ghosts and other ghosts in Purdue water.

Before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, many people will "burn buns" at intersections or by the water, which has been a traditional ancestor worship custom in Hunan for thousands of years. "Burning bag" includes "gold and silver paper bag" and "clothes box". These "wealth packages" are also bundles of money written in advance and folded according to certain rules. They are distributed in the eulogy according to the relationship between relatives and friends, and burned at intersections or by the water, which can lead the filial piety of future generations and go home happily.

The ancestor worship method in Yuanjiang, Hunan Province is to burn steamed buns, but it is usually not on July 15, but on July1day or 12, so there is also a saying of "eleven gold and twelve silver".

Eating Duck on the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month Many places in China will choose to eat duck, and Hunan is no exception. This is because "duck" means "pressure", which is homophonic. Eating duck is to kill ghosts.

Ancestor worship, also known as "July 15th", is the Mid-Autumn Festival and ancestor worship festival. People believe that ancestors will go home to visit their descendants at this time, so they need to worship their ancestors. Worship ceremonies are usually held in the evening before the end of July, and are not limited to specific days.

In Yangjiaqiao, Xiangtan, Hunan, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, adults should take a bath, dress neatly, prepare incense sticks, paper money and firecrackers, and welcome their wandering ancestors home. It is forbidden to whistle during the sacrifice. People in Yueyang City, Hunan Province sacrifice their ancestors with hanging money.

Sacrifice to land and crops: On the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, people in Hunan Province also offer sacrifices to land and crops. People scatter offerings in the fields, burn paper, and then wrap them on the ears of crops with sliced five-color paper. It is said that this can avoid hail attacks and get a bumper harvest, and some places will also go to Houtu Temple to offer sacrifices.

There are two opinions about putting lanterns on Halloween: First, let your ghosts use lanterns to take away bad luck as far away as possible, so that these ghosts will never come back. At this time, it is very taboo for other people's sky lanterns to fall in their own places. If they fall, they must be released again.

Secondly, every family wants their deceased ancestors to enter the Elysium, and putting lanterns on Halloween is to light the way to heaven for their ancestors who are preparing to fly to the Elysium of the underworld.

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