What's the difference between July and Tomb-Sweeping Day?

The Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Ghost Festival" and "July and a half", and Buddhism is called "Arahara Festival", which falls on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month every year. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from Liang Wudi in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and its history should be from Buddhism and the story of "an eye for an eye". The Mid-Autumn Festival was developed by the Buddhist Bonsai Society.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the Walking Festival, is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, the first 108 day from winter to the future. According to the solar calendar, Tomb-Sweeping Day is between April 4th and 6th every year. Traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years.

Second, the objects of worship are different.

Mid-Autumn Festival: From ancient times to the present, the object of worship of Mid-Autumn Festival has developed from offering sacrifices to fields and ancestors to "orphans without owners" in transcendence. Therefore, in some places, July is also called "Ghost Moon", which needs to be commemorated, and "July and a half" has evolved into "Ghost Festival". Buddhists hold grand bonsai every time. Taoism also held the "Mid-Yuan Purdue" on this day, offering food and burning paper, so that homeless ghosts and ghosts could have a full meal.

Tomb-Sweeping Day: Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival to worship ancestors, and the activity is to sweep graves. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a day for future generations to remember and sacrifice their ancestors. Most filial sons and grandchildren will go to cemeteries, crematoriums or columbariums for worship to express their grief and remember and cherish the memory of their ancestors.