The wind is light and the sun is sinking, and the money is remitted back to the ancestral home. Even if you think more in the future, it's hard to live in the past. Candlelight sends grief, and the moon goes to the Central Plains to pay homage to the dead. The coins and satin are fragrant and ready to worship the ancestors, and they are sobbing. In mid-January, the cave lights are bright and the sky in the west is purple.
The offerings are fragrant with red candles and tears, and passers-by are frightened and praying. At dusk, the neon lights are flashing, and three glasses of wine are poured to respect the wild soul. Don't care about the darkness of every dust cloud, pray to be less fierce and muddy. Yesterday, the rain hit the eaves, leaving the seats cool. Missing with tears, there is no moon in the Central Plains to hide Qiu Guang.
Han: The Four Musts of Mid-Autumn Festival (Ping)
The bitter wind and rain darken with the clouds, and I miss my parents' tears. Sorrow lights up, and the sky is cold.
The origin of the Mid-Autumn festival
Mid-Autumn Festival is the name of Taoism, which is called July and a half in folklore, and it is called Arahara Festival in Buddhism. Festival customs mainly include offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper ingots and offering sacrifices to the ground.
Its birth can be traced back to ancestor worship and related festivals in ancient times. July is auspicious month and filial month, and July and a half is a folk festival to celebrate the harvest and repay the earth in early autumn.
Many crops have matured. As a rule, people should worship their ancestors, offer new rice and other sacrifices, and report the situation in Qiu Cheng to their ancestors. It is a traditional cultural festival to commemorate ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors and do filial piety.
In the Book of Changes, "seven" is a changing number and a resurrected number. I ching: "repeat the same thing and come back in seven days. It will be fine."
The seventh is yang number and days. After the sun between heaven and earth is extinguished, it can be resurrected after seven days. This is the way of heaven and earth, the principle of yin and yang circulation. People choose to worship their ancestors on July 14 (February 27), which is related to the number of resurrection. The Mid-Yuan Festival in Taoism and the Kasahara Festival in Buddhism are both scheduled for July 15.
July 30th was originally an ancient folk festival to worship ancestors, but it was called "Central Plains Festival", which originated from Taoism after the Eastern Han Dynasty. Buddhism calls July and a half the "Kasahara Festival". In a sense, the ancestor worship festival in July and a half belongs to folk customs, the Mid-Autumn Festival belongs to Taoism, and the Arahara Festival belongs to Buddhism.
Sacrificing ancestors on July 14 and 15 are traditional cultural festivals popular in countries with Chinese character culture circle and overseas Chinese areas. On this day, through pious sacrificial activities, I expressed my feelings of pursuing the future with caution.
New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Hanyi Festival are traditional festivals for Chinese people to worship their ancestors. 20 10 in may, the "mid-autumn festival" declared by the Ministry of culture in the hong kong special administrative region was selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list.