The Origin of Mid-Autumn Festival on July 15th and China Customs.

? Every festival has its specific origin and customs, but every province in China has different customs. Do you know the customs of Mid-Autumn Festival in various provinces? The following is the Origin of Mid-Autumn Festival on July 15th and Collection of China Customs, which I compiled for your reference only. Welcome to read it.

What is the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival on July 15th and the comprehensive collection of customs in China? The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, called Shangyuan Festival, has been celebrated since ancient times. July 15 is called Mid-Autumn Festival, which is a festival dedicated to ancestors. October 15th, known as the Next Yuan Festival, is a cold food in memory of the sages. July 15th is the Mid-Autumn Festival in the lunar calendar, and July 14th in some areas.

? The Mid-Autumn Festival was originally a small autumn, and some crops were ripe. As a rule, people should worship their ancestors, offer sacrifices, such as new rice, and report Qiu Cheng to their ancestors. Therefore, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, every family pays homage to their ancestors. On July 15, I went to visit the grave to worship my ancestors. Overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese will send money in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Zhongyuan Festival, Winter Solstice Festival and Niandou Festival, otherwise they will be regarded as inferior people who are disrespectful to their ancestors, unfilial to their elders and irresponsible to their wives.

? Legend has it that all ghosts will be released from the underworld on the Lantern Festival, and people will generally worship ghosts. Anyone who has a new funeral will go to the new grave as an example, but in general places, ghosts will be sacrificed, which has become one of the biggest folk festivals in China.

? Customs in various parts of China:

? Hebei Province: Botou City and Nanpi County take fruits, bacon, wine and money to the ancestral graves on July 15. And hold the hemp valley to the field stalk, which is called recommending the new. In Guangping County, the Mid-Autumn Festival, offering fresh food to ancestors and preparing fruits, vegetables and steamed sheep for grandchildren, is called sending sheep. On July 15, Qinghe County went to the grave to pay a sacrifice and offer steamed sheep to her daughter.

? Shanxi Province: Scholars in Yonghe County offer sacrifices to Kuixing on this day. The shepherd family in Zhangzi County slaughtered sheep in the Mid-Autumn Festival, competing with the gods. It is said that this can increase the output of sheep. Meat is also given to relatives, while those who are poor and have no sheep use steamed noodles in the shape of sheep instead. Farmers in Yangcheng county make cats, tigers and grain from wheat crumbs and sacrifice in the fields, which is called going to the fields. Mayi County People's Mid-Autumn Festival takes wheat flour as children's shape, which is called dough figurines, and presents children from relatives to each other. Farmers in Xinxian County hang colored paper on the stalks of fields on the Mid-Autumn Festival.

? Henan Province: When the Central Plains worships the local officials in Shangqiu County, a paper flag is hung at the door, which is said to prevent insects. Flying kites during Mid-Autumn Festival in Mengjin County. On July 15, the magistrate of a county drew a gray circle in front of the door and burned paper gongs in the circle to worship the ancestors.

? Shandong Province: Long Island fishermen make boats out of wooden boards, stick notes on them for use, or put them on the tablets of drowning people in the sea, then load them with food, clothes, shoes and socks, and then light candles. The married man put the boat into the sea. In Zhanhua County, every family picked Kyle and fresh grass leaves to build a shed, which was called a horse house, and asked ancestors to put it in for sacrifice. Ling Du County calls the Mid-Autumn Festival "pinch festival", and every family eats humble meals.

? Shaanxi Province: Lintong County burned paper to worship Ma Gu on July 15. Farmers in Chenggu County will drink alcohol during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is called hanging hoes. Delay farmers, go to the fields in the morning of Mid-Autumn Festival and choose the highest and densest ear of rice.

? Lanpen Festival held in Qibao Ancient Town, Shanghai

? Hanging a five-color paper flag is called Tianzan.

? Jiangsu province: residents of Wuxian county fold gold ingots with tin foil during the Mid-Autumn Festival and burn them along the road, which is called ghost luck. There is still a kind of paper ghost circulating in Yizheng county, which contains bowl lamps, gamblers, drunkards and senior officials. There are four boats in the Zhongyuan Festival River in Yixing County, one is the flame mouth, the other is the Buddha chanting, the other is the tin foil ingot burning, and the other is the river lantern. On this day, villagers in Dong Xian eat flat food, which is a dustpan-shaped food made of flour and sugar. When releasing river lanterns in Shanghai, the stern is decorated with red and green paper lanterns, which is called dugu.

? Sichuan Province: Burning paper to worship ancestors in the Central Plains is a custom in Sichuan Province. That is, a stack of paper money is sealed in a small envelope, and the name and title of the recipient, the number of envelopes received, and the name and time of the silk changer are written on the envelope. It is said that the Gate of Hell was closed on July 15, and all families hoped that Shigu would send their children. Chengdu people tied the flower tray with paper, put paper money and fruit offerings in their hands. They walked around the house, reading: dear friends, neighbors, former residents, ghosts who don't want to go back, please put them in flower trays and send you back! After that, the back end is incinerated outside the house.

? Zhejiang Province: Jiashan County regards the rain of Mid-Autumn Festival as a sign of rice harvest. On the Mid-Autumn Festival in Tonglu County, gongs are played at night and rice is scattered in the wild, which is called feeding. In the Orchid Society in eastern Zhejiang, 24 old ladies were invited to chant Buddhist scriptures and walk in the Eight Diagrams Array. Eating jiaozi on the roof during Mid-Autumn Festival is similar to spring rolls. There is also the custom of putting up street lamps. There are six able-bodied men as a group: one who knocks gongs, one who banges, one who carries lanterns, one who scatters salty rice along the way, one who makes incense along the way (inserted on a sweet potato or taro), and one who makes tofu and rice balls along the way (placed on a big tree), with a sacrifice about every hundred steps.

? Jiangxi Province: People in Ji 'an burn paper ingots in the Mid-Autumn Festival, but pregnant women are forbidden to fold paper ingots. It is said that the paper ingots folded by pregnant women cannot be carried by ghosts after being burned, and it is also impossible to send them to the underworld. When releasing the flame, the mage threw buns and fruits at the audience. Legend has it that a woman grabbed a steamed stuffed bun and had a child the next year. A child who robs steamed stuffed buns will never be afraid in his life. Ancestor worship in Anyuan County began on July 12, and incense and tea were burned in the morning and evening. On the fifteenth night, burn clothes and give paper money.

? Fujian Province: On the Mid-Autumn Festival in Yongfu County, married women must go home to worship their ancestors. Fuzhou dialect calls the Central Plains the Festival of Burning Paper and Dressing. The married daughter prepared her parents' clothes and robes and put them in a box called a gauze box, which was sent to her parents' home. There was a custom of Pudu in the middle of Yuan Dynasty in central Fujian, which was held in both urban and rural areas, and its funds were raised by people along the gate. Even the poorest families will try their best to raise money to cope. There is a proverb: if you don't cross the border, the plague is in sight. Purdue doesn't contribute, I'll pick it up. There are also children's bands performing in Purdue. Puxian has customs such as family sacrifice, mother-in-law's fever, paper feeding and gold ornaments.

? Guangdong Province: On July 15, the Yi people in Qujiang County offered sacrifices to their ancestors and the king of the dog head, and rewarded the gods with boys and girls singing and dancing in flowered clothes. People in Guishan County regard July 14 as the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is said that because Yuan soldiers went south in those days, in order to avoid chaos, the festival was celebrated one day in advance. In Chenghai county, ancestor worship and kitchen god are held on the Mid-Yuan Festival. In the Central Plains of Deqing Prefecture, winter leaves of trees are wrapped in flour to make cakes, which are called bridges to worship ancestors. In ancient Shigu, Chaoyang County, wealthy families would buy plows, waterwheels and even poor girls, write them on paper and scatter them when giving food. If you can't afford farm tools or a wife, you can get a voucher.

? Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region: Most people in Guilin regard 14 as a ghost festival every month. The whole festival starts from July 7 and ends on the evening of July 14, and its process is the process of welcoming ancestors, sending them off and chasing them. In some places, ancestors were welcomed from July 7th, and in some places, ancestors were welcomed on July13rd, but there were also festivals (i.e. sacrifices) on July 7th. On the evening of July 14, we bid farewell to our ancestors. After the sacrifice before dinner, we will hold a ceremony to bid farewell to our ancestors until about 10 in the evening. At the same time, we will burn our wallets, purses, paper money and so on. Write the names of ancestors (probably how many generations of ancestors from different families) and sprinkle rice, water and rice at the intersection. Its process is complicated and serious, and it is the most complicated festival in the local ceremony. This is a festival that local people attach great importance to. In addition to the Spring Festival (Lantern Festival also belongs to the Spring Festival in the local concept, including off-year holidays), it is as important as Mid-Autumn Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Dragon Boat Festival. Yangshan people take the 14th of July as the festival to kill ducks to worship their ancestors, and there were no pedestrians on the road that day, which is called hiding ghosts. In Guangxi province, Mid-Autumn Festival is also called Duck Festival. People believe that the dead can be written on ducks by high school students, and they can travel freely between the dead and the underworld through ducks' carriages. In addition, there is the custom of burning steamed stuffed buns. Generally, ancestors are sacrificed first, and then clothes are burned for ghosts. Food and wine for ancestor worship must be put in a flat basket, which means that wild ghosts are not allowed to rob them.

? Yunnan Province: Tengyue people burned a bag after worshipping their ancestors, carved a cucumber into a boat shape, called a cucumber boat, and incinerated it with the bag.

? Hunan Province: Shaoyang people receive old customers around July 12 of the lunar calendar, and burn paper bags and incense to worship their ancestors on the evening of July 15 of the lunar calendar. There are inches of paper money in the paper bag, and the front of the paper bag is taboo. After being wrapped, it must be sealed on the back. On the fifteenth night, the more buns are burned, the bigger the fire, indicating that the home is more prosperous.

? Hubei Province: People in Macheng will slaughter livestock around the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, get together with their aunts and burn paper money to worship their deceased ancestors. On the day of the sacrifice, meat and wine are offered first, steamed bread, rice and bamboo chopsticks are evenly spread in the food, and lanterns are decorated and sacrificial words are also reported. Every man personally printed and made paper money on paper money, burned paper and bowed down to his ancestors. After that, the family will have a feast. This festival can be held on any day from July 13 to 16.