What is the Chinese New Year Festival?

The Zhongyuan Festival is the name of the Taoist religion, commonly known as the half of the seventh month in folklore, the fourteenth day of the seventh month, the month of good fortune, Shi Luan, Jai Luan, and in Buddhism as the Bon Festival. "The festival was originally a festival of ancestor worship in ancient times, but the name "Zhongyuan Festival" originated from the Taoist saying after the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The festival's customs include ancestor worship, releasing river lanterns, sacrificing to the souls of the dead, burning paper ingots, and offering sacrifices to the land. Its origin can be traced back to the worship of ancestral spirits and related temporal festivals in ancient times. July is the month of good fortune and filial piety, and the half of the seventh month is a folk festival for celebrating the harvest and rewarding the earth in the early autumn, when a number of crops are ripe, and it is customary for the folk to worship their ancestors and make offerings of new rice and other offerings to report the success of the autumn to their ancestors.

The festival is a cultural and traditional festival to memorialize ancestors, and its cultural core is to honor ancestors and filial piety.

The festival is a cultural tradition of honoring one's ancestors.