Is July 14 a ghost festival?

July 14 is Ghost Festival, also called Mid-Autumn Festival.

Every year, the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is called "San Li Festival" and "San Li Festival", also known as "Mid-Yuan Festival" (in a sense, San Li Festival belongs to Taoism and San Li Festival belongs to Buddhism). In some places, it is commonly known as "Ghost Festival" and "Stone Drum", also known as the Day of the Dead and July and a half.

"Ghost Festival", commonly known as "July 30th" (in some areas, especially in southern China, it is said that Mongols invaded a place at the end of the Song Dynasty, and residents celebrated the festival one day in advance to escape). It is said that the dead ancestors were released by Yan for half a month at the beginning of July, so there is a custom of picking up their ancestors at the beginning of July and seeing them off at the end of July.

According to Buddhists, on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, Buddhists will hold a "bonsai ceremony" to offer sacrifices to the Buddha and monks to relieve six kinds of pains and thank their parents for their kindness.

No matter rich or poor, they should prepare dining tables and paper money to pay homage to the dead to express their memory of their dead ancestors. Mid-Autumn Festival is usually seven days, with new and old dead. Those who die within three years are called new deaths, and those who die more than three years are called old deaths. Superstition is that old people and new people will go home to visit during this time, and old people and new people will come back at different times. The new one will come back first, and the old one will come back after the meeting.

On this day, the master stage and the stone drum stage were set up in front of Jiekou Village in advance.

At night, every household should burn incense in front of their own house and put incense on the ground. The more, the better, which symbolizes the bumper harvest of grain. This is the so-called "field expansion". In some places, there are water lanterns.