What do you say about the Mid-Autumn Festival, a relative who died that year?

In some areas, the Mid-Autumn Festival cannot burn paper for relatives who died that year.

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Ghost Festival and July 30th, is a traditional festival for ancestor worship in China, which is as famous as New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Double Ninth Festival. Together with Shangsi Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day Festival and Cold Food Festival, they are called the four "ghost festivals".

The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month (13th and 14th in some places) every year. It is a traditional festival to commemorate the deceased relatives, inherit the culture of filial piety and thank the ancestors for their blessing.

In some areas, you can't burn paper less than a year after your loved ones die. A year later, you should choose an auspicious day to burn paper, also called burning new paper! People who died that year need to burn paper money on certain days, such as three-day graves, the seventh day, the second day, the third day, the fifth day and the anniversary.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Cold Clothes Festival and so on can only be celebrated in the second year. However, in some areas, no matter what festivals you catch up with, there are no special taboos to celebrate.

The origin of the Mid-Autumn festival

In fact, the first Mid-Autumn Festival has nothing to do with Ghost Festival, because it is on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month every year, which happens to be the season of late summer and early autumn. At this time, the crops and fruits planted by people will soon be in the harvest season. Facing the joy of harvest, simple working people are also grateful to the ancestors of the Chinese nation.

They cherish the beautiful life created by their ancestors for future generations, so they will choose this day to hold ancestor worship activities, and pray that their ancestors can continue to protect future generations so that people can have a bumper harvest in the coming year.

It was not until later that Taoist culture began to flourish. According to Taoist legend, every year on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, the gate of hell will be opened, and ghosts from the lower bound can come out to reunite with their relatives and have a full meal.