When is Ghost Festival?

Halloween is August 14. Ghost Festival, as its name implies, is a festival related to ghosts and a festival to worship ghosts. Ghosts are an extension of human life in the period of ignorance. The concept of prolonging life in eastern and western cultures is slightly different, but people dying like ghosts has always been the mainstream of ghost culture.

There are Chinese and western Halloween, and there are many Halloween in China, such as July 30th, Tomb-Sweeping Day, March 3rd and 10/day. Among the Western Ghost Festivals, there are Mexican Ghost Festivals and Thai Ghost Festivals. The most famous is Halloween.

Connotation fusion

In the seventh month of the lunar calendar, there are Zen Seven and Pure Seven in Buddhism, and even 7749 means infinity. Seven is a number with endless changes and implications. According to Buddhism, the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is the day when monks and nuns achieve great merits. On that day, Buddhist disciples held bonsai.

According to the records in the Tripitaka, bonobo is Sanskrit, which means upside down, and bonobo means rescue device. "Japan" means an object used to save the suffering upside down. It comes from the meaning that "Japan" is filled with all kinds of fruits to support the Buddha and monks to save the suffering beings in hell. This ceremony was first popular in Mulian's method of saving mother.

The Taoist Mid-Yuan Festival originated from the Great Dedication Sutra, and the Buddhist Bonobo Festival originated from the Buddhist Bonobo Sutra. Monks in the Tang Dynasty revealed that Taoist Liu Wudai copied Buddhist bonsai and forged a great dedication sutra.