When is the Chinese New Year Festival?

Midwinter Festival is one of the three major ghost festivals in China.

Midwinter Festival is a traditional Chinese folk festival on July 15 of the lunar calendar. In the south, it is also known as the "Ghost Festival". It is also said that the festival is on July 14th on the lunar calendar. On the day of the festival, people bring offerings and go to the graves to pay tribute to their ancestors, similar to visiting the graves on the Qingming Festival.

Together with New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival and Chongyang Festival, Zhongyuan Festival is one of the four traditional Chinese festivals for ancestor worship. In Buddhism, the festival is also known as the "Bon Festival". It not only has the religious beliefs of Buddhism, but also has the local culture of Taoism in China. It is said that on this day, the ghosts in the netherworld will be released, and in order to honor their ancestors and pay tribute to the earth officials, people in the yangworld will prepare rich offerings, burn incense and paper to pay tribute to these ancestors from the netherworld.

Folklore experts believe that the festival belongs to the intangible cultural heritage, is a culture, is to remember the ancestors of both ancient and modern tradition, this tradition reflects the ancient people, "careful to catch up with the distant" idea, everyone has parents, based on this idea and the feelings of the ancestors and responsibility, the festival is bound to be constantly get The first time I saw this, it was a very good time.