What's the date of Ghost Festival in China?

The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is the Mid-Autumn Festival, commonly known as Ghost Festival and July 30th. Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in China, also known as July 30th, July14th, Ancestor's Day, Orchid Festival and Local Officials' Day. Festival customs mainly include ancestor worship, river lanterns, sacrifice to the dead, burning paper ingots, land sacrifice and so on. "Mid-Autumn Festival" is the name of Taoism, which is called "July 30th" (or "July 14th") in folklore. Its appearance can be traced back to ancestor worship and related festivals in ancient times.

Festivals are related to the cycle of yin and yang in ancient culture. In the Book of Changes, "seven" is a changing number and a resurrected number. July is auspicious month and filial month, and July 30 is a festival for people to celebrate the harvest and repay the earth in early autumn. Some crops are ripe, so people need to worship their ancestors and report Qiu Cheng to them with new rice and other sacrifices. This festival is a traditional cultural festival to remember the ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect the ancestors and do filial piety.

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Hebei: Botou City and Nanpi County carried fruits, bacon, wine and money to their ancestral graves on July 15. It is called "recommending new things" to hold a hemp valley to a field stalk. The Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangping County offers fresh food to worship ancestors, and prepares fruits and vegetables and steamed sheep for grandchildren, which is called "sending sheep". On July 15, Qinghe County went to the grave to pay a sacrifice and offer steamed sheep to her daughter.

Shanxi: Scholars in Yonghe County sacrifice Kuixing on this day. The shepherd family in Zhangzi County slaughtered sheep in the Mid-Autumn Festival, competing with the gods. It is said that this can increase the output of sheep. Meat is also given to relatives, while those who are poor and have no sheep use steamed noodles in the shape of sheep instead. Farmers in Yangcheng county make cats, tigers and grains from wheat crumbs and sacrifice them in the fields, which is called "going to the fields". People in Mayi County take wheat flour as the shape of children in the Mid-Autumn Festival, named "Mianren", and give each other children from relatives. Farmers in Xinxian County hang colored paper on the stalks of fields on the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Henan: In Shangqiu County, when the Central Plains worships local officials, a paper flag is hung at the door, which is said to prevent insects. Flying kites during Mid-Autumn Festival in Mengjin County. On July 15, the magistrate of a county drew a gray circle in front of the door and burned paper gongs in the circle to worship the ancestors.