Why are there fireworks on the Mid-Autumn Festival (Ghost Festival in Meng Lanjie)?

The Mid-Autumn Festival (Ghost Festival, Meng Lanjie) also sets off fireworks, because we want to send our ancestors back to the "underworld".

Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional folk festival. It's on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, and it's also on the fourteenth of July. On this day, every family should pay homage to their ancestors, and some even hold family dinners to pay tribute to their ancestors like a memorial ceremony. Three rounds of wine shows that after the ancestor feast, the family will sit together and eat a holiday meal.

After the power failure, take firecrackers, paper money and incense sticks, find a quiet riverside or pond, and sprinkle a circle of lime to mark the restricted area. Pour some water and rice in the circle, burn some paper money and set off firecrackers.

In the past, on the seventh day of July, people would take the ghosts of their ancestors home through some ceremony, and provide tea and rice three times a day in the morning, noon and dusk until July 15th. Now, superstition has gradually disappeared, and the form of memorial service has been preserved as a memory and commemoration of our ancestors.