What is the Mid-Autumn Festival? What should the Mid-Autumn Festival do?

The festival customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival mainly include ancestor worship, river lanterns, worship of the dead, burning paper ingots, land sacrifices and so on. Sacrificing ancestors on the Mid-Autumn Festival is to comfort the ghosts who play on earth and pray for their safety and success all the year round. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional cultural festival to commemorate ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors and filial piety.

Mid-Autumn Festival, that is, the festival of ancestor worship in July and a half, is also called Shigu Festival, Ghost Festival, Solitary Lent Festival and Local Officials' Day. Festival customs mainly include ancestor worship, river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, and burning paper ingots. According to folk customs, offering sacrifices to ancestors, offering new rice, and reporting to ancestors in Qiu Cheng are traditional cultural festivals to commemorate ancestors, and their cultural core is respecting ancestors and filial piety.

Mid-Autumn Festival is the name of Taoism, the folk and secular festivals are called ancestor worship festivals on July 1st/2nd and 14th, and the Buddhist festivals are called Lanpen Festival. Its appearance can be traced back to the worship of ancestors and related festivals in ancient times. July is auspicious and filial. July 3 is a folk festival to celebrate the harvest and repay the earth in early autumn. Some crops have matured, so people have the custom of worshipping their ancestors, offering new rice and other sacrifices, and reporting Qiu Cheng to their ancestors. This festival is a traditional cultural festival to commemorate ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors and filial piety.