What festival is Zhongyuan Festival in 2021, what day is it in the lunar calendar
The Chinese New Year’s Day is an ancient traditional festival in my country, also known as Ghost Festival, July The half and Ubon festivals originated from the sacrifices to the ancestors of ghosts and gods in ancient times.And the time of Zhongyuan Festival in 2021 is the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and Sunday, August 22 of the Gregorian calendar.
Introduction to Zhongyuan Festival
Zhongyuan Festival is the name of Taoism, and is commonly known as July and a half, July 14 (another saying July 15) ancestor worship festival , Buddhists call it the Obon Festival.The festival customs mainly include worshiping ancestors, putting river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper ingots, and offering sacrifices to the land.Its origin can be traced back to the worship of ancestral spirits and related rituals in ancient times.July is the auspicious month and the month of filial piety.The half of July is a folk festival in early autumn to celebrate the harvest and reward the earth.When some crops are mature, the folks should make sacrifices to ancestors as a rule, and use new rice and other offerings to report the autumn to the ancestors.The festival is a traditional cultural festival in memory of ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors and filial piety.
The origin of the Mid-Yuan Festival
The Mid-Yuan Festival originated from the early "July and a half" farming harvest and autumn tasting ancestors, and the "July and a half" generation can be traced back to ancient times ancestor worship and harvest sacrifice.In ancient times, people often relied on the blessing of gods for the harvest of farming.The worship of ancestors can be found in spring, summer, autumn and winter, but the "autumn taste" in early autumn is very important.Autumn is the harvest season.People hold sacrifices to ancestors and deceased souls, offering seasonal delicacies to gods, and then tasting the fruits of these labors and praying for a good harvest in the coming year.
"July and a half" was originally a folk ancestor worship festival in ancient times, and it was called "Zhongyuan Festival", which originated from the Taoism after the Eastern Han Dynasty.Taoism has the "Three Yuan Theory", "the heaven officials give blessings on the upper side, the earth officials in the middle Yuan forgive sins, and the water officials lower the yuan to resolve misfortunes.The name "Zhong Yuan" comes from this.Buddhism calls the seventh month and a half "Yu Yu".Lanpen Festival".In the Tang Dynasty when the rulers respected Taoism, the Taoist Zhongyuan Festival began to flourish, and "Zhongyuan" was gradually fixed as the festival name.>
The time of the Mid-Yuan Festival in 2021
In the Book of Changes, "seven" is a number that changes and is the number of resurrection."Book of Changes":"Repeat its way, seven Day after day, day and night."Seven is the number of yang and the number of days.After the yang energy between heaven and earth is extinguished, it can be reborn after seven days.This is the way of heaven and earth."Seven" is related to the number of rebirths.The Taoist Zhongyuan Festival and the Buddhist Ullama Festival are set on July 15th.Therefore, the Zhongyuan Festival in 2021 will be the seventh lunar month on the fifteenth, which is August 2021 in the Gregorian calendar.The 22nd is the day.
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