What is July 14th Festival

The Zhongyuan Festival, a Taoist name, is known as the half of the seventh month in folklore, and the Bon Festival in Buddhism. The main customs of the festival include ancestor worship, releasing river lanterns, worshipping the souls of the dead, burning paper ingots, and offering sacrifices to the land. The birth of the festival can be traced back to the worship of ancestral spirits in ancient times and the related temporal festivals. July is the month of good fortune and filial piety. The half of the seventh month is a festival for folk to celebrate the harvest and reward the earth in the early autumn, when a number of crops are ripe, and it is customary for folk to worship their ancestors and offer new rice and other offerings to report the success of the autumn to their ancestors. It is a cultural and traditional festivals in memory of ancestors, and its cultural core is to honor the ancestral filial piety.