When is Ghost Festival?

The three major ghost festivals in China are: Tomb-Sweeping Day, Zhongyuan Festival and Han Festival.

1, Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the twenty-four solar terms in China and one of the three ghost festivals in China, which belongs to a grand and serious traditional festival in China. Tomb-Sweeping Day is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, usually from winter to the future 106, the day after the Cold Food Festival.

Because of the custom of ancestor worship, grave sweeping and outing in China, it has gradually evolved into a traditional festival for China people to commemorate their ancestors in the form of grave sweeping and worship.

2. Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival must be the most familiar ghost festival, which falls on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month (in some places, especially in the south of China, it is said that Mongols invaded a place at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and residents celebrated the festival one day in advance to escape). Taoism calls it Mid-Autumn Festival, Buddhism calls it Lan Festival, and folks call it Ghost Festival and July and a half.

3. Cold Clothes Festival

Every year, the first day of October in the lunar calendar is called "October Dynasty", also known as "ancestor worship festival". For the Cold Clothes Festival, also known as Ghost Festival. On this day, special attention is paid to paying homage to those who died first, which is called sending cold clothes. In order to prevent their ancestors from catching cold in the underworld, on this day, people will burn five-color paper, send them warm clothes, and send them warmth, a ghost.

The origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, which originated from the ancient Spring Festival. Originally, the Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day were two different festivals. In the Tang Dynasty, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Cold Food Festival merged into one day because of their similar dates. Later, it also absorbed the custom content of another earlier festival-Shangsi Festival.

Tomb-Sweeping Day combines two festivals and customs, namely, cold food and thinking about the past. In Song and Yuan Dynasties, a traditional festival centered on ancestor worship and grave sweeping was formed, which combined the custom of forbidding cold food with the custom of thinking about outing. The ancients divided Qingming into three stages, namely, the initial blooming stage of tung flowers; Second, wait for the wheat flowers, and the voles turn to drive away; Third, a bright future brings a bright future, and a rainbow is first seen.