What is the Ghost Festival?

There are four major ghost festivals in China, which are:

Ching Ming Festival ( April 5 on the Gregorian calendar)

Chinese New Year's Day ( July 15 on the Lunar Calendar)

Shang Si Festival ( March 3 on the Lunar Calendar)

Cold Clothes Festival (October 1 on the Lunar Calendar)

Ching Ming Festival:

Ching Ming Festival, also known as the Festival of Trekking in the Green, is celebrated in the mid-spring at the turn of mid-spring and twilight, which is the day after the winter solstice on the 108th day. It is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the most important festivals for ancestor worship and grave sweeping . The traditional Qingming Festival of the Han Chinese began around the Zhou Dynasty, more than 2,500 years ago. Influenced by Han culture, 24 ethnic minorities in China, including Manchu, Hezhen, Zhuang, Oroqen, Dong, Tujia, Miao, Yao, Li, Shui, Jing and Qiang, also have the custom of celebrating Qingming Festival. Tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship, and trekking and picnicking are the basic themes.

Midwinter Festival:

Midwinter Festival, commonly known as the Ghost Festival, Shi Kuo, and the half of the seventh month, is known as the Bon Festival in Buddhism. Along with New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival and Chongyang Festival, it is a traditional Chinese festival of ancestor worship and a traditional cultural festival popular in the countries of the Chinese character culture circle. It is also a traditional cultural festival popular in the countries of the Chinese character culture circle. The Zhongyuan Festival has the custom of releasing river lanterns and burning paper ingots.

Sami Festival:

Sami (sì) Festival, commonly known as the third of March, the traditional festivals of the Han Chinese people, the festival in the Han Dynasty before the first half of March as the sixth day, and later fixed in the summer calendar on the third day of March. The traditional festival in the lunar calendar in March of the first Si Day, is also the day of purification, that is, spring bath day. The festival is gradually being forgotten, as is the Flower Festival.

Cold Clothes Festival:

Cold Clothes Festival, the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as the "October Dynasty", "Ancestor Festival", "Underworld Festival", the public called the ghost head day! The festival is a traditional Han Chinese festival, which is said to have originated in the Zhou Dynasty. On this day, special attention is paid to honoring those who died first, which is called sending cold clothes. Cold Clothes Festival and the spring of the Qingming Festival, on the Si Festival, the fall of the Mid-Yuan Festival, and is known as the year's four major "ghost festival". At the same time, this day also marks the arrival of winter, so it is also the parents and loved ones care about people to send cold clothes day.