July 14 Why do you want to eat duck?

The reason why we want to eat ducks in July 14 is because July 14 is the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival in July 15. Eating ducks is a folk custom in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Because ducks swim in the water, they take the meaning of crossing the river with lanterns to pray. In addition, it is also said that "duck" and "stress" are homophonic, and eating duck is to suppress "soul".

On the Mid-Autumn Festival, many people will hold sacrificial activities with wine, meat, sugar cakes, fruits and other sacrifices between the first day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, in order to comfort the ghosts who are playing on earth and pray for their safety and success all the year round. More solemn even asked monks and Taoists to recite scriptures. During this period, some people will invite Buddha statues such as Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and Mulianzun to place high platforms, or invite artists to play the exorcist Zhong Kui (among them, artists are invited to manipulate Zhong Kui puppets) to eliminate the rage of the deceased.