Mid-Autumn Festival (also called Ghost Festival, the 15th day of the seventh lunar month) is the origin of traditional festivals in China.

The name of "Central Plains" originated from the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the Central Plains Festival is also called "Ghost Festival" or "Dream Orchid Festival". According to "Five Magazine": "The Daojing takes the fifteenth day of the first month as the Shang Yuan, the fifteenth day of July as the Zhong Yuan, and the fifteenth day of October as the Xia Yuan." The Book of Practice says: "On the Mid-Yuan Day in July, the local officials condemned the good and evil in the world, so the Taoist priest came to recite the scriptures at night and the hungry people were released." On this day, Buddhism also held a meeting to transcend the Dharma, called "Ulamana" (Hindi, ULLAMBANA), that is, "Menglan Meeting". Dream orchid basin means hanging upside down. The pain of life is like a bat hanging upside down from a tree, which is very miserable. In order to save all living beings from the suffering of hanging upside down, it is necessary to recite the scriptures and give food to ghosts. This coincides with China's worship of the ghost moon, so the Mid-Autumn Festival and Menglan will be handed down at the same time.

Introduction of Mid-Autumn Festival:

Mid-Autumn Festival is usually called Ghost Festival. Folk traditional festivals. It's on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, and it's also on the fourteenth of July. On this day, every family should pay homage to their ancestors, and some even hold family dinners to pay tribute to their ancestors like a memorial ceremony. Three rounds of wine shows that after the ancestor feast, the family will sit together and eat a holiday meal. After the power failure, take firecrackers, paper money and incense sticks, find a quiet riverside or pond, and sprinkle a circle of lime to mark the restricted area. Then pour some water and rice in the circle, burn some paper money, set off firecrackers, send our ancestors on their way and turn to the "underworld" In the past, on the seventh day of July, people would take the ghosts of their ancestors home through some ceremony, and provide tea and rice three times a day in the morning, noon and dusk until July 15th. Now, superstition has gradually disappeared, and the form of memorial service has been preserved as a memory and commemoration of our ancestors.

The significance of Mid-Autumn Festival:

From the legends about the Mid-Autumn Festival, we can deeply realize that the Mid-Autumn Festival sacrifice has dual meanings, one is to show filial piety in memory of ancestors, and the other is to carry forward the righteous act of pushing oneself and others and being charitable. This is all from the perspective of compassion, which is very human. So while celebrating the Central Plains, we should get rid of the ghost's point of view and look forward to mutual love.