What is the meaning of the Chinese New Year's Day the origin of the Chinese New Year's Day

This I know, because we Guangxi side will be every year this festival, although not very popular, but also has its customs Oh.

This is because we celebrate this festival every year here in Guangxi. Although it is not very popular, it has its own customs and traditions. Here's an introduction to the meaning of the festival and the origin and other related knowledge~~

1, the meaning of the festival

The festival is Daoism, in ancient China, the first, the seventh, the fifteenth day of the month of October is called on the first, in the first, in the second, in the second: on the first day of the month of the heavenly officials to give blessings, in the middle of the day of the earthly officials to forgive the sins of the day. The first is the day when the heavenly officials give blessings, the middle is the day when the earthly officials forgive sins, and the second is the day when the water officials relieve the evils. Therefore, it is the day when the ghosts and spirits of the people are sent to the middle of the month.

Midwinter Festival - July 15 on the lunar calendar, the traditional Chinese folk festival "Midwinter Festival". In the south, it is also known as the "Ghost Festival". It is also said to be celebrated on July 14th on the lunar calendar. On the day of the festival, people bring offerings and go to the graves to honor their ancestors, similar to going to the graves on the Qingming Festival. In feudal times, local officials also ordered monks and Taoists from temples to set up orphan soul dojos to honor fallen soldiers and soldiers, and people burned large amounts of paper money on the Mid-Yuan Festival.　　

2, the origin of the festival

In the I Ching, "seven" is a number of change, is the number of rebirth. The I Ching: "Repeating its way, seven days come and go, and heaven acts." Seven is the number of yang, the number of heaven. After the yang energy between heaven and earth is extinguished, it can come back to life after seven days, which is the way of heaven and earth, the cycle of yin and yang. "Seven" also carries a mysterious color, such as the sky has "seven stars" (seven stars shine high), human feelings have "seven feelings", color has "seven colors ", music has "seven sounds", poetry has "seven rhythms", the human body has "seven orifices" and so on. "Seven" is also the human life cycle, seven years old began to be educated, fourteen years old into puberty, twenty-one years old body fully mature ....... Seven numbers in the folk performance in time phases, in the calculation of time is often "seven seven" for the end of the game, the resurrection of the game. "July is an auspicious month, filial piety month, and the fourteenth day (two seven) is the cycle of the number "seven". Ancient people chose to worship their ancestors on the 14th day of the 7th month (the half of the 7th lunar month), which is related to the number of resurrection of "seven".

This festival originated from the early "July half" of the agricultural harvest in the fall to taste the ancestors, "July half" of the birth can be traced back to the ancient ancestor worship and agricultural harvest festival. Anciently, people often looked to the gods for their blessings for a good agricultural harvest. Ancestors were worshipped in spring, summer, fall and winter, but the "Autumn Tasting" in early fall was very important. Autumn is the harvest season, and people hold ceremonies to offer sacrifices to the spirits of their ancestors, offering seasonal delicacies to the gods first, and then tasting the fruits of their labor and praying for a good harvest in the coming year.

The "Half of July" was originally a folk festival of ancestor worship in ancient times, but it was called the "Festival of the Chinese New Year" because of the Taoist saying after the Eastern Han Dynasty. Taoism has "three elements", "the heavenly officer on the yuan blessing, the earth officer in the yuan to forgive sins, the water officer in the yuan to solve the problem," the name of the "middle yuan" thus. In Buddhism, the half of the seventh month is called the "Bon Festival". In the Tang Dynasty, when the rulers promoted Taoism, the Taoist Zhongyuan Festival began to flourish, and gradually fixed "Zhongyuan" as the name of the festival, which was set on July 15, and continues to this day.

3, 2023 Zhongyuan Festival is which day

2023 Zhongyuan Festival time: August 30, 2023 (the 15th day of the 7th lunar month).

4. Folk Ancestor Sacrifice Customs on the Mid-Yuan Festival

Folk ancestor sacrifices are usually performed before the 15th day of the 7th lunar month, and are not limited to a specific day.

The folk through certain rituals, the night to pick up the ghosts of the ancestors to go home, the daily morning, afternoon and evening, for three times the tea and rice, until sent back. Sent back, burn money and paper sealing package, called burning "package of clothes", or there are legal affairs (or Buddha or Taoist). In some places (e.g. Hunan), the Mid-Yuan Festival is

more important than the Ching Ming Festival for ancestor worship.　　

5, Zhongyuan Festival burning paper when to burn the best

Chinese Yuan Festival burning paper time must be selected in the dark through the time to go, generally 9:00 p.m. after 12:00 p.m. before.　

Burning paper money is the most solemn ritual activity during the Ghost Festival, depending on the region, the time to burn paper money varies, some regions will burn paper money in advance, on the day of July 14th. However, in general, the night of July 15 is the most solemn activity of burning paper money.　　Legend has it that at midnight on the 15th of July, the King of Hell will close the door to the ghosts, so those lonely ghosts will take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, people in order to prevent the mountain gods and wild "ghosts" into the house, every family in the house and outside the burning of paper money, light incense and wax paper will be surrounded by their own houses, children are not allowed to go out at night in case of chaos in the wild ghosts captured.　　

6, the significance of the festival

From the legend about the half of the seventh month, we can y appreciate the half of the seventh month of the festival has a double significance in the first is to carry forward the filial piety of remembering the ancestors, and the second is to carry forward the righteousness of the goodness of oneself and others. This is all from the perspective of compassion and is very humane. Therefore, while celebrating the Chinese New Year, we should break away from the perspective of ghosts and encourage mutual love.

As far as its cultural connotation is concerned, the half of July is also one of China's traditional ancestor worship festivals, and its culture embodies a kind of faith behind it. July half belongs to the intangible cultural heritage, is a culture, is to remember the ancestors of both ancient and modern traditions, this tradition embodies the ancient people "prudent to catch up with the distant" thought, its cultural core is to honor the ancestors and filial piety.

The above is about the meaning of the festival, the origin of the festival and other related knowledge, I hope you can learn more about the festival Oh ~ ~ ~ ~