What festival is the next Lantern Festival?

October 15th of the lunar calendar is the "Next Yuan Festival". It is said that this festival is the birth day of Taoist "water officials". On this day, Taoist temples often turn over and do Dojo for the dead, which later evolved into a day of folk sacrifice and remembering ancestors.

Gao Wei, secretary-general of Beijing Folklore Society, said that to inherit the beneficial folklore of this festival, it should be combined with people's living habits today through the guidance of the government and folklore workers.

The next Yuan Festival was not a folk festival at first. Gao Wei introduced that its origin is related to Taoism. Taoism has three officials, namely, heaven official, earth official and water official, which are called God bless the people, earth official forgives sins and water official releases Eritrea. The dates of birth of the three officials are the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the fifteenth day of July and the fifteenth day of October. These three days are called Shangyuan Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Xiayuan Festival.

"Due to the climate characteristics in late autumn, people's psychological changes have been caused, and they need to communicate with their ancestors for comfort. At the same time, autumn is the harvest season. In order to be grateful to our ancestors, people choose to sacrifice their ancestors on the next Lantern Festival. Therefore, the next Lantern Festival gradually became a festival to express folk feelings. " Gao Wei explained.

Seasonal food

Dietary customs are an important part of holiday customs. In the long-term practice of numerous festival activities, human beings have formed independent and special seasonal foods, such as eating jiaozi in the Spring Festival, Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, Zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival and moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival. Like other customs and habits, it is the national unity of people's holiday behaviors with the same feelings and mentality, which plays an important role in the survival and development of festivals.

The next Yuan Festival also has its own unique seasonal food. Take Beijing as an example. Next Lantern Festival, every household will make "red bean paste and bone flowers". "Bean paste" is the "bean paste stuffing" made by adzuki beans. This is a Beijing snack "bean paste buns". This kind of "bean paste buns" that can be eaten all year round has been a seasonal food for Meng Dong in October in the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago.

Refer to the above? People's Network-Besides Shangyuan Festival and Zhongyuan Festival, there is also Xiayuan Festival.