Why is the "Ghost Festival" in Guangxi a day earlier?

According to the folklore of the Zhuang ethnic group, people who die and become ghosts have to go to the netherworld. Only on the seventh to fifteenth of July can they take a "vacation" and return to the earth to visit their loved ones. As for no home and no relatives "lonely ghosts" can only wander in the wilderness, so in this time, are not allowed to loiter outside, lest the "wild ghosts" pulled to do the double, it is also known as "hide ghosts! "

As for the "wild ghosts", it is purely a feudal superstition. The reason for this is also a reason: the Zhuang region is located in the subtropical, the rainy season is the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year, often followed by flash floods, and therefore often people fall down the mountain, drowning; "wild ghosts" said, in fact, is to warn people (especially reckless teenagers) do not go to the mountain streams and rivers near to play, so as not to cause accidents. The story of "wild ghosts" is actually to warn people (especially reckless teenagers) not to play near mountain streams and rivers, so as to avoid accidents.

The younger generation of Guangxi people should be very curious, Guangxi over the "ghost festival" is not in the lunar calendar July 15, but in the lunar calendar July 14, why hard to advance a day? Here is a legend: Previously, the people of Guangxi also in the lunar calendar July 15 festival. To the end of the Song Dynasty, the southern war, Guangxi people are preparing for the Mid-Yuan Festival, heard that the Yuan army attacked Lingnan, in order to avoid the war, had to be a day ahead of the festival. Then it has been continued.

Some places in Guangxi will treat the Ghost Festival as a major festival, Wuming, Yongning and other places will generally default to the Mid-Yuan Festival before and after the two days basically belong to the category of the Ghost Festival.　Guangxi people over the "ghost festival", are rarely out of the house, swimming, do other business events, the afternoon stores on the street closed early. "Ghost Festival" to the people lazy to bring a good excuse, the living people also have a reason to eat.