Why is the seventh day of July considered as Ghost Festival?

The seventh day of July is Tanabata, and the fifteenth day of July is Ghost Festival. Guangxi Zhuang folklore: people who become ghosts after death must go to the underworld. Only from the seventh day of July to the fifteenth day of July can you go back to visit your relatives on the earth, hence the name Ghost Festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival (Ghost Festival), also known as July 30th and 14th, ancestor worship festival, orchid festival and local officials' festival, mainly includes ancestor worship, setting off river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper ingots and offering sacrifices to the ground. "

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 need to worship their ancestors 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.

Sacrificing ancestors on July 14/ 15 is a traditional cultural festival popular in Chinese character cultural circles of various countries and overseas Chinese areas, and it is also a traditional festival to worship ancestors on the same footing as New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Chung Yeung Festival.