Customs of the Chinese New Year's Day (Short Customs of the Chinese New Year's Day)

It will soon be the Mid-Yuan Festival, which is a traditional Chinese festival, what are the customs of the Mid-Yuan Festival? Can you go out at night on the Mid-Yuan Festival? Here's a look at it!

Ancestor worship

The most important folkloric activity is ancestor worship on the Mid-Yuan Festival. Every year on the Mid-Yuan Festival, every family, rich or poor, will prepare some medals, fruits, wine, or other seasonal food to offer to the ancestors to show the memorial.

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In some areas, there is a tradition of celebrating the Mid-Yuan Festival on July 14, but most of them do it on the 15th.

Burning paper

Burning paper is an object that must be used in folk worship and memorializing ancestors, according to superstition, the paper in the Yang world is the money in the nether world, and people are giving money to their ancestors and the deceased by burning paper on the Mid-Yuan Festival, and people will also have to leave a few sheets of paper when they go to the graves to burn them on the crossroads, with the aim to give some alms to some homeless wild ghosts to prevent them from to snatch the money of the dead.

Playing boats

People in areas near the water will play boats on the Mid-Yuan Festival as a sign of hope, and the custom is still preserved in many areas, where some wishes are left on the boats, and it is believed that the wishes will be fulfilled by following the river.

Launching river lanterns

River lanterns and boats are not the same thing, boats are boat-like, while river lanterns are usually lotus lanterns tied with paper and other implements. During many traditional festivals, people release river lanterns by the riverside, but the difference is that the oil candles inside the lotus lanterns are jizang candles during the Mid-Yuan Festival.

Can you go out at night on the Mid-Yuan Festival

Of course you can, but it is not recommended to go out late at night or too late.

These traditional customs of the Mid-Yuan Festival are carried out at night, how to participate in the activities if you do not go out, so, the Mid-Yuan Festival can go out, many people think that the Mid-Yuan Festival do not go out because, the Mid-Yuan Festival is already in the fall, the night temperature is more chilly, too late at night, outside, easy to get cold cold, from the point of view of health, it is indeed do not be too late to be outside.