What solar term is Mid-Autumn Festival?

1, Zhongyuan Festival is not a 24-solar term. Zhongyuan Festival, commonly known as Ghost Festival, falls on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month every year.

2. Mid-Autumn Festival is the name of Taoism, which is called July 30th and 14th in folklore and ancestor worship festival in Buddhism. Festival customs mainly include offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper ingots and offering sacrifices to the ground. Its appearance can be traced back to ancestor worship and related festivals in ancient times. July is auspicious month and filial month, and July 30 is a festival for people to celebrate the harvest and repay the earth in early autumn. Some crops are ripe, so people should worship their ancestors according to the law and report Qiu Cheng to them with new rice and other sacrifices. This festival is a traditional cultural festival in memory of ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors and do filial piety.

3. In the Book of Changes, "seven" is a changing number and a resurrected number. I ching: "repeat the same thing and come back in seven days. It will be fine." The seventh is yang number and days. After the sun between heaven and earth is extinguished, it can be resurrected after seven days. This is the way of heaven and earth, the principle of yin and yang circulation. People choose to worship their ancestors on July 14 (February 27), which is related to the number of resurrection. The Mid-Yuan Festival in Taoism and the Kasahara Festival in Buddhism are both on July 15.

4. "July 30th" was originally an ancient folk festival to worship ancestors, but it was called "Central Plains Festival" and originated from Taoism after the Eastern Han Dynasty. Buddhism calls July and a half the "Kasahara Festival". In a sense, the ancestor worship festival in July and a half belongs to folk customs, the Mid-Autumn Festival belongs to Taoism, and the Arahara Festival belongs to Buddhism.

On July 14 and 15, ancestor worship is a traditional cultural festival popular in countries with Chinese character cultural circle and overseas Chinese areas, and it is also a traditional ancestor worship festival as famous as New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Double Ninth Festival. 20 10 in may, the "mid-autumn festival" declared by the Ministry of culture in the hong kong special administrative region was selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list.