Is July 14 a ghost festival? Is there really a ghost at night?

Introduction: Ghost Festival exists, and there is more than one in China, but the most common saying is the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month. Some people say that July 14 is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Is it true?/You don't say. Is July 14 a ghost festival? As for Halloween, everyone wants to know if there are really ghosts at night. If you want to know the answers to these questions, please explore with me.

Is July 14 a ghost festival?

July 14 is Ghost Festival, because southerners and northerners celebrate Ghost Festival at different times, and southerners all celebrate it on 14. Because foreign enemies invaded before, in order to avoid being caught by the enemy because of the festival, the ancestors advanced the festival by one day to avoid disaster.

Why is July 14 called Ghost Festival?

In fact, many places have different opinions about China Ghost Festival, and some places will designate July as 14 Ghost Festival.

Report 1

According to legend, there is no Mid-Autumn Festival in the south, which was introduced by Han people who moved south in ancient times. But why does the South celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival on July 14th instead of July 15th? There is a legend that during the Song Dynasty, there was a war in the north, and a group of Han people fled to the south in a hurry. But on the eve of their escape, they encountered a difficult problem: how to take their ancestors away? Traditionally, only on New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Double Ninth Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival do ancestors' spirits gather home and follow their spirits. At this time, there is only one day before the Mid-Autumn Festival (the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month), but they can't wait.

In order to gather ancestral spirits, they decided to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival one day in advance to gather ancestral spirits, and then fled to the south with their ancestral tablets. Later, in order to commemorate this day, Han people who fled to the south changed the Mid-Autumn Festival to the 14th day of the seventh lunar month every year. Now, "July 14th" is a common festival for many southern Han people and ethnic minorities.

Statement 2

According to the survey, the festival celebrated by southerners is July 14, and that celebrated by northerners is July 15. Both of these festivals are called the Mid-Yuan Festival, that is, Ghost Festival. Southerners celebrate this festival on July 14, because foreign enemies invaded before. In order to avoid being caught by the enemy, the ancestors advanced the festival by one day.

The custom of Halloween is more complicated. In some places, it is on the 14th, and in some places it is on the 15th, even on the 13th and 12th. In some places, before the Mid-Autumn Festival in July 15, an auspicious day is chosen to worship the "family immortals" and ancestral graves, so it will be chosen on 13 or 14.

July 14 ghost festival legend

About the Song Dynasty, there was a war in the north, and a group of Han people fled to the south in a hurry. But on the eve of their escape, they encountered a difficult problem: how to take their ancestors away? Traditionally, only on New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Double Ninth Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival do ancestors' spirits gather home and follow their spirits. At this time, there is only one day before the Mid-Autumn Festival (the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month), but they can't wait.

In order to gather the souls of their ancestors, they decided to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival one day in advance, gather the souls of their ancestors, and then fled to the south to take refuge with their ancestral tablets. Later, in order to commemorate this day, Han people who fled to the south changed the Mid-Autumn Festival to the 14th day of the seventh lunar month every year. Now, "July 14th" is a common festival for many southern Han people and ethnic minorities.

Is there really a ghost at night?

First of all, it is certain that "ghosts" do exist, one is a spiritual ghost and the other is an external ghost.

The so-called ghosts in the heart are ghosts in the heart. I think about it every day and dream every night. If you are tired, anxious, or thinking about something, it is easy to have ghosts in your heart. This kind of ghost is very harmful to human body and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Ghosts usually have three external manifestations.

One is nightmares, such as sleeping in an incorrect posture, or putting your hand against your chest, which is easy to have nightmares. The second kind is eye fan. For example, when there is nothing, you will suddenly find something in the corner of your eye, which is a manifestation of trance and inattention. The third is that there is a ghost behind it. The most common thing is that when you are alone at night, you always feel that something is spying on you, which makes you very scared. Actually, it's psychological. Are there really ghosts after midnight? If it is not a ghost, there is a ghost outside.

The so-called foreign ghost is what people often call a kid. There are two kinds of ghosts in the legend. One is that after death, the soul has obsession and stays on earth without going to the underworld, which is called a ghost. One is that female creatures get old and produce wisdom, which is called ghosts. But what I said above is just a legend, which cannot be verified. At least I haven't seen it.

Is there really a ghost in scientific explanation?

As for whether there are foreign ghosts, I think there are. However, ghosts are not easy to form. There are two necessary conditions for the appearance of ghosts. First, the spirit before death, or brain waves, is very powerful, and people will not dissipate when they die.

Second, the external environment is conducive to the survival of brain waves. After most people die, the soul will disappear immediately and will not form a ghost. Only when there is extreme fear or other strong obsession before death, the soul experiences out of body and happens coincidentally, will there be ghosts.

Ghosts produced by this situation have only a little memory when they die, and have no memory of what happened before. In fact, this kind of opportunity is rare, and even if there is, the ghost will slowly dissipate over time. There may be a certain probability that ghosts can survive for a long time and produce wisdom, but this probability is one in ten billion. At the same time, I want to say that there are ghosts in this world, so don't be afraid. As the old saying goes, people are afraid of ghosts for three points and ghosts are afraid of people for seven points. People are worse than ghosts, and they can be destroyed with one blow.