What are the four festivals for ancestor worship?

The four festivals for ancestor worship are New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Double Ninth Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

1, New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve, that is, the night of thirty years, the last night at the end of a year, is also called "the end of the year". There is a saying that "the end of the year is approaching, and the difference is one year." With the approach of the New Year, in a traditional festival like China, people will naturally set up dishes and wine in advance to pay homage to their ancestors with a series of celebrations.

2. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day generally belongs to one of the 24 solar terms from April 4th to April 6th in the Gregorian calendar. Tomb-Sweeping Day's main activities are not only grave sweeping and ancestor worship, but also sightseeing. During the Qingming Festival, spring returns to the earth, full of vitality, and the whole family gathers in the suburbs to worship their ancestors, and also takes this opportunity to go hiking, get close to nature and enjoy family happiness.

3. Double Ninth Festival

In the historical development and evolution, the Double Ninth Festival is a mixture of various folk customs, bearing rich cultural connotations. In the folk concept, "nine" is the largest number, which means longevity, and it places people's wishes for the health and longevity of the elderly. The Double Ninth Festival has the customs of climbing high and praying, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and drinking and praying.

4. Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival is a folk festival to celebrate the harvest and repay the earth in early autumn. Some crops are ripe, so according to the law, people should worship their ancestors, offer new rice and other sacrifices, and report Qiu Cheng to their ancestors. It is a traditional cultural festival to commemorate ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors and do filial piety.

The Origin and Inheritance of Double Ninth Festival

The Double Ninth Festival was formed as early as the Warring States Period. Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the atmosphere of the Double Ninth Festival has become increasingly rich, and scholars of all dynasties have chanted it. In the Tang Dynasty, it was officially designated as a folk festival and passed down from generation to generation. Chongyang and the "spring outing" on March 3 are all family members. On Double Ninth Festival, all relatives should climb the mountain together to "avoid disaster".

Double Ninth Festival, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, is a traditional festival in China. Double Ninth Festival is also called Double Ninth Festival, because "nine" is defined as yang number in Yijing, and September 9, two or nine are important, so it is called Double Ninth Festival. The ancients thought that the Double Ninth Festival was an auspicious day to celebrate. Celebrating the Double Ninth Festival generally includes traveling to enjoy autumn, climbing high and overlooking, watching chrysanthemums, planting dogwood all over, eating double ninth cake, drinking chrysanthemum wine and other activities. Later, it became a festival to worship ancestors.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Double Ninth Festival.