Turn off the lights or sleep on Halloween?

Mid-Autumn Festival is an ordinary traditional festival. On this day, there will be various customs in many places, especially don't go out at night, don't stay up late, and you'd better go to bed early. You can turn on or turn off the lights when you sleep in the Mid-Autumn Festival, mainly depending on your personal habits. It is generally recommended to turn off the lights and sleep better, and the quality of sleep will be higher.

Do I have to turn on all the lights when I sleep in the Mid-Autumn Festival?

No. You don't need to turn on all the lights when you sleep in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Some people even turn off the lights to sleep, which generally has no effect.

The solar terms in the Central Plains are the most cloudy day in a year. The underground government opened the door, and the ghost came out to travel. Therefore, on this day, China has the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors, so that ancestors and old people can accept filial piety from their descendants.

In ancient times, Central Plains festivals were very lively. Everyone will come out to put out lanterns and participate in various sacrificial activities. But in ancient times, many dynasties imposed curfews. Basically, after 10 in the afternoon, there were almost no people on the road.

Today's Central Plains Festival will certainly not be as grand as in ancient times, but the tradition of ancestor worship has been preserved to this day. Paper money for ancestors is also very beautiful. It is best not to burn at noon, because noon is the darkest time of the day and it is easy to meet ghosts.

In modern China, there is no such large-scale activity as ancestor worship. Ancestor worship is also rare. Mid-Autumn Festival is still the day when the gate of hell opens. On this day, you can't stay too far from home after dark. When traveling with ghosts, you'd better go home and rest early to avoid any taboos. Especially children, they are very fragile. It's best to sleep with your parents at 8-9.

Are the lights on or off at the Mid-Autumn Festival night?

According to personal habits, it is generally recommended to turn off the lights and sleep, so that the quality of sleep will be better.

Everyone has different sleep habits. If you are used to sleeping with the light on, sleep with the light on as long as people around you don't complain. But some people don't like to turn on the light to sleep, because the light is dazzling, which affects normal sleep and requires complete darkness to fall asleep. According to personal habits, it is ok to turn on the light when sleeping, but there is no scientific basis for turning on the light to attract ghosts. These are feudal superstitions, so there is no need to take them seriously.

It is obviously wrong to say that sleeping with the light on will attract ghosts. This statement is not accurate. If there is a ghost, the ghost will find a soft persimmon to pinch, not a person who is afraid of ghosts. So, the more you are afraid, the more things will happen. You'd better try to overcome your inner fears.

If you are afraid of the darkness at night, you can go to bed early and turn off the lights when there are lights around, which will increase your inner security. When you fall asleep, the lights around you will go out.

Before going to bed, check every corner of the room to make sure there is nothing in these corners and the doors and windows are closed. It will make you feel safer and then go to bed.

The custom of Mid-Autumn festival

1. ancestor worship

The festival of ancestor worship is on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, so it is called "July and a half". People believe that their ancestors will also go home to visit their children at this time, so they need to sacrifice to their ancestors. Worship is usually held in the evening before the end of July, not limited to a specific day.

2. Sacrifice land and crops

/kloc-In July of 0/5, people still worshipped land and crops. Scatter sacrifices in the fields. After the paper is burned, cut it into small pieces with five-color paper and wrap it on the ears of crops. It is said that hail can be avoided and a bumper harvest can be achieved in autumn. Some places will also go to Houtu Temple to offer sacrifices. The folk custom in Dingxiang County is to hang horses and antiques in front of the door.

Go to the temple to pray.

Prepare vegetarian fruits, go to temples, give alms to Buddhists and Monks, read the scriptures and mantras of King Earth Treasure, repay the kindness of parents, and pray for the dead ancestors.

Turn on the sky lantern

There are also two ways to put lanterns on Halloween. One is to let children go out with lanterns and take away bad luck. They should go as far as possible, so that these children will never come back. At this time, it is a taboo to leave the skylight of other people's home at home. If they fall, they must fly out again. Second, every family wants their dead ancestors to go to heaven. Hanging lanterns on Halloween is to light the way to heaven for the ancestors who will fly to heaven in the underworld.