What festival is the day before the hot summer?

The day before summer is Mid-Autumn Festival.

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 month and filial month, and July 30 is a festival for people to celebrate the harvest and repay the earth in early autumn. Some crops are ripe, so people should worship their ancestors according to the law and report Qiu Cheng to them with new rice and other sacrifices. It is a traditional cultural festival to commemorate ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors and do filial piety.

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 Chung Yeung Festival are traditional festivals for Chinese people to worship their ancestors. 20 10 in may, the "mid-autumn festival" declared by the Ministry of culture in the hong kong special administrative region was selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list.

The festival significance of Mid-Autumn Festival;

From the legends about July and a half, we can deeply understand that the sacrifice in July and a half has dual meanings, one is to show the filial piety of remembering ancestors, and the other is to carry forward the righteous act of pushing oneself and others and being charitable. This is all from the perspective of compassion, which is very human. So while celebrating the Central Plains, we should get rid of the ghost's point of view and look forward to mutual love.

As far as its cultural connotation is concerned, July 30th is also one of the traditional festivals for ancestor worship in China, and its culture reflects a belief. July and a half belong to intangible cultural heritage, which is a kind of culture and a tradition of remembering ancestors in ancient and modern times. This tradition embodies the ancient people's thought of "being cautious to the end and pursuing the distance", and its cultural core is to respect the ancestors and do filial piety.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhongyuan Festival