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Ghost Festival Meteorology

Ghost Festival, Death Festival, Cold Food Festival and Ghost Festival, among which Ghost Festival, Ghost Festival and Cold Food Festival are not nicknames of Tomb-Sweeping Day.

The Cold Food Festival was originally to commemorate Jin Wengong's courtiers and mesons in the Spring and Autumn Period. Later, I almost forgot that he was mixed up with Tomb-Sweeping Day instead. Qingming was just the name of a solar term at first, and later became a festival to commemorate ancestors, which was related to the Cold Food Festival.

Ghost Festival is the Mid-Yuan Festival, also known as July 30 and Three Ghosts Festival, and Buddhism is called the Arahara Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on July 15th of the lunar calendar, partly on July 14th. It used to be Xiaoqiu, and a batch of crops were ripe. As a rule, people should worship their ancestors, provide new rice and other sacrifices, and report the situation in Qiu Cheng to their ancestors. So every Mid-Autumn Festival, every family worships their ancestors.

Tomb-Sweeping Day originated from the ancestral belief and the custom of worshipping spring in ancient times, which has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation. It is not only a solemn festival to pay homage to ancestors, but also a happy festival for people to get close to nature, have an outing and enjoy the fun of spring.