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What is the festival after Beggar's Day

After the Beggar's Day is the Zhongyuan Festival on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, which is commonly known as the Ghost Festival and the half of the seventh month, and is called the Bon Festival in Buddhism. The Zhongyuan Festival is held on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and some of them are also held on the fourteenth day of the seventh month, and on this day of the festival, people bring offerings and go to the graves to commemorate their ancestors, which is similar to visiting the graves on the Ching Ming Festival.

Zhongyuan Festival that is the half of July Ancestor Festival, festival customs are mainly ancestor worship, put the river lamps, sacrificial souls, burning paper ingots, etc., Zhongyuan Festival by the ancient times, "the half of the seventh month," the harvest of the agricultural fall tasted ancestor worship evolved from the half of the seventh month is the early autumn folk celebrations of the harvest, pay thanks to the earth's festivals, there are a number of crops are ripe, the folk are customary to ancestor worship, with new rice and other sacrificial offerings, to the new rice and other offerings, to the ancestors. Offerings with new rice, etc., to report to the ancestors of the fall into a cultural tradition of ancestral memory of a festival, the cultural core is to honor the ancestors as filial piety.