What are the three Halloween festivals in China?

The three Halloween festivals in China refer to Tomb-Sweeping Day, Zhongyuan Festival and Hanyi Festival. In some parts of northern China, the three traditional festivals, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Zhongyuan Festival and Hanyi Festival, are collectively called "Three Ghosts Festival". Among the three ghost festivals, the main festival activities are: folk ancestor worship, outing and so on.

What are the three Halloween festivals in China?

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, March Festival and ancestor worship festival, is a traditional major Spring Festival. It has been a fine tradition of the Chinese nation for thousands of years for Tomb-Sweeping Day to sweep graves and remember his ancestors.

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Stone Drum Festival, Ghost Festival, Lonely Festival and Local Officials' Day, is a traditional cultural festival to commemorate ancestors. Its cultural core is to respect ancestors and do filial piety. Festival customs mainly include ancestor worship, setting off river lanterns, worshipping the dead and burning paper ingots.

The Cold Clothes Festival on the first day of October in the lunar calendar, also known as "October Dynasty", "Ancestor Festival" and "Ghost Festival", is very popular in the north. Many northerners will offer cold clothes on this day to commemorate their deceased relatives.