How do the Japanese pay homage to their ancestors? What is the traditional custom of "giving fire to meet fire"?

In China, ancestor worship is held in traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day, which is also an important day to commemorate ancestors and mourn the dead friends. Japanese also want to sweep graves, but unlike China, they do not sweep graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day, but at the vernal equinox, autumnal equinox and the annual Yulanben Festival in August of the solar calendar. The Bonihara Festival was originally a festival in China, but now China people have forgotten it, but the Japanese have inherited it well.

On the night of July 13 every year, people will burn beanstalk in front of the graves of their ancestors and the deceased, and in front of their homes. At the same time, children will shout: "Grandpa, grandma, come to the fire and come out", which is "meeting the fire". 16 "Send fire", the children shouted again: "Go back by the fire, go back"!

The Japanese believe that the souls of their ancestors will come back to hold various commemorative activities on the day of Kasahara Festival, and making a fire means coming by fire.

In some places, people will go to the cemetery to greet the dead of their ancestors and light a fire. There are also many families, their own practices will be different, but people welcome their ancestors home in the same mood. According to the traditional Japanese culture, the ancestors' spirits will be ignited, and then they will return to China and enter the Buddhist altar.

Sending a fire is a fire lit to let the souls of ancestors return to the cemetery smoothly. In some places, lanterns are hung on the eaves. Although the Bonihara Festival is not a festival stipulated by law, it is a traditional national festival. On that day, people consciously held a memorial ceremony from door to door to welcome the dead of their ancestors and then send them back. This is the Japanese custom of "fighting fire with fire".