How many Halloween festivals are there in China?

The three major ghost festivals in China are: Tomb-Sweeping Day, Zhongyuan Festival and Han Festival.

1, Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the twenty-four solar terms in China and one of the four ghost festivals in China, which belongs to a grand and serious traditional festival in China. Tomb-Sweeping Day is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, usually from winter to the future 106, the day after the Cold Food Festival. In the past, Tomb-Sweeping Day was also called Cold Food Festival, which lasted for one hundred days. Cao Cao changed it to one day, and the Tang Dynasty changed it to three days before Qingming. All fires must be put out. After the cold food was served, a new fire broke out in the palace.

2. Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival must be the most familiar ghost festival. It falls on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month (in some places, 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). Taoism calls it Mid-Autumn Festival, Buddhism calls it Orchid Festival (referred to as Orchid Festival), which is commonly known as Ghost Festival and July and a half.

3. Cold Clothes Festival

Every year, the first day of October in the lunar calendar is called "October Dynasty", also known as "ancestor worship festival". For the Cold Clothes Festival, also known as Ghost Festival. On October 1 ST, the burning cold clothes entrusted the memories of the old people and carried the sympathy of the living for the dead. At the same time, this day also marks the arrival of severe winter, so it is also a day for parents and lovers to send warm clothes to people they care about.

The origin of Mid-Autumn Festival on July 15.

The appearance of Mid-Autumn Festival can be traced back to ancient ancestor worship and related festivals. 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 to remember the ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect the ancestors and do filial piety.

"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.