What is the Chinese New Year Festival

Zhongyuan Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, commonly known as the half of the seventh month in folklore, the Festival of Ancestor Sacrifice, and the Bon Festival in Buddhism. Zhongyuan Festival is celebrated on the 14th or 15th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar every year. It is a folk festival of ancestor worship in the ancient times, and the main festival customs include ancestor worship, releasing river lanterns, sacrificing to the souls of the dead, burning paper ingots, sacrificing to the land, and praying for a good harvest, and so on.

What is Zhongyuan Festival

Zhongyuan Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, in the ancient times, the half of July is the folk festival of ancestor worship, and after the Eastern Han Dynasty, Taoism called it Zhongyuan Festival, and in Buddhism, the half of the seventh month is called the Bon Festival. The Mid-Yuan Festival is essentially a festival for remembering ancestors, and the core culture is to honor ancestors and do filial piety.

The timing of the festival is slightly controversial, with two versions, July 14 and July 15, but they are both around the same time. July was the month of good fortune and filial piety in the minds of the ancients, and people celebrated the harvest, rewarded the earth, and sacrificed new rice to their ancestors on the half of July to report the success of the fall.

Customs of the Mid-Yuan Festival

The customs of the Mid-Yuan Festival are mainly rituals, because different regions have different methods of worship, including ancestor worship, burning paper, burning incense and firecrackers, releasing river lanterns, jumping sky lanterns, and so on, and ancestor worship is usually held in the evening of the middle of July. At the same time, the Mid-Yuan Festival also has customs such as praying for a good harvest, eating ducks and sacrificing to the land.