Mid-Autumn Festival Pinyin

Mid-autumn festival pinyin: zhōng Yuán Jie.

Mid-Autumn Festival is the name of Taoism, which is called July and a half in folklore, and it is called Arahara Festival in Buddhism. Festival customs mainly include offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper ingots and offering sacrifices to the ground. Its birth can be traced back to ancestor worship and related festivals in ancient times. July is auspicious and filial month.

July and a half is a folk festival to celebrate the harvest and repay the earth in early autumn. Some crops are ripe, so according to the law, people should worship their ancestors, offer new rice and other sacrifices, and report Qiu Cheng to their ancestors. It is a traditional cultural festival to commemorate ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors and do filial piety. In the Book of Changes, "seven" is a changing number and a resurrected number.

July 30th was originally an ancient folk festival to worship ancestors, but it was called "Central Plains Festival", which originated from Taoism after the Eastern Han Dynasty. Buddhism calls July and a half the "Kasahara Festival". In a sense, the ancestor worship festival in July and a half belongs to folk customs, the Mid-Autumn Festival belongs to Taoism, and the Arahara Festival belongs to Buddhism.

Sacrificing ancestors on July 14 and 15 are traditional cultural festivals popular in countries with Chinese character culture circle and overseas Chinese areas. On this day, through pious sacrificial activities, I expressed my feelings of pursuing the future with caution. New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Hanyi Festival are traditional festivals for Chinese people to worship their ancestors. 20 10 in may, the Ministry of culture was selected as the "mid-autumn festival" declared by the hong kong special administrative region.

Historical development:

According to historical documents, autumn ancestor worship activities existed in the pre-Qin period. The custom of ancestor worship in July and a half is the product of local culture, and inclusive festivals are more complicated. It is not only an autumn festival for ancestor worship, but also the Mid-Autumn Festival of Taoism and the Bonin Festival of Buddhism. The folk, Taoism and monks are integrated. In the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the crops are ripe, and some places in China have a tradition of holding ancestor worship ceremonies at this time since ancient times.

The ancients offered sacrifices to their ancestors in spring, summer, autumn and winter. In July, they will provide newly harvested fruits, vegetables, millet and other grains, which is called "autumn tasting", also known as "recommending new things" and "tasting new things", that is, let ancestors taste new things in autumn. In the old days, the Mid-Autumn Festival was not only significant in the belief dimension, but also a festival with high mass participation and distinctive entertainment functions in the secular level.