Customs of Haoyuan Festival

The customs of the Haewon Festival include repairing fasts and setting up jiao-festival and enjoying sacrifices to ancestors.

Next Yuan Day is also one of the Taoist fasting law, Taoism believes that all to rely on the power of God, such as praying for blessings, disaster, plucking the bitter, thank you for the sin, seek immortality, life extension, the deceased and so on, all to repair fasting. The method of repairing the fast is roughly divided into two categories of a slightly three, one set up for the fast. That is, set up an altar for fasting dip God, to seek blessings and avoid disaster.

With the passage of time, the next Yuan Festival in folklore gradually evolved into more than a sumptuous dishes, enjoy the ancestral spirits, pray for blessings and auspicious traditional festival. Enjoy the ancestors is a reflection of faith in ancestors, human faith in ancestors, is the worship of human beings themselves. Belief in ancestors, ancestor worship, to the ancestors of the soul to show reverence, a purpose is to pray for the ancestors to bless the future generations.

Traditional food for the next year's festival

The next year's festival is celebrated by eating mochi, which is made with the help of relatives and neighbors. It is usually made by steaming fresh glutinous rice, then pounding it into a stone mortar until it is rotten, then taking out the glutinous paste and making it into a ball, and putting it into a steamer to be steamed.

The folk saying, "Eat mochi in the morning and fish in the evening," is an unwritten custom of eating meat dishes on the next Yuan Festival in ancient times. Because the festival is held on the 15th day of the 10th month of the lunar calendar, it is usually just after the harvest time, and in order to thank God for the gifts, the family gathered together for the related celebrations.