What day is the Lunar New Year’s Day in 2023?
The Mid-Yuan Festival in 2023 refers to the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, which is August 30, 2023 in the Gregorian calendar.Whenever the Mid-Autumn Festival comes, we have to hold rituals to sacrifice ancestors to ghosts and gods, and burn paper money, so it is also called the Ghost Festival.
The time of the Mid-Yuan Festival in 2023
The time of the Mid-Yuan Festival in 2023 is the 30th day of the Gregorian calendar, which is the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month.The Zhongyuan Festival is the name of Taoism, and it is called the ancestor worship festival in July and a half and the fourteenth of the seventh month (another saying is the fifteenth of the seventh month).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 historical origin of the Mid-Yuan Festival
This festival originated from the early "July and a half" farming harvest and autumn sacrificing ancestors.The "July and half" can be traced back to ancient 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 festival significance of the Mid-Autumn Festival
From the legends about the Mid-Yuan Festival and the culture of the Mid-Yuan Festival, we can understand the significance of the Mid-Yuan Festival, which is to expound the filial piety of remembering the ancestors and make the People follow the distance carefully and spread the correct filial piety.The Zhongyuan Festival is a colorful festival with rich cultural connotations.It not only has the religious beliefs of Buddhism, but also the local culture of Taoism in China.The Zhongyuan Festival is a carrier of our traditional culture.It reflects people’s concept of ghosts and gods and religious beliefs, as well as the essence of Chinese culture - filial piety culture.
According to Buddhism, the source of the Mid-Autumn Festival is the story of Mulian saving his mother.He couldn’t bear his mother’s suffering in hell, so he gave to monks from all over the world to atone for his mother’s sins, and finally freed his mother.This story is widely circulated among the people, and the story itself is a manifestation of filial piety culture.The belief of being good in life.
In addition, the custom of the Zhongyuan Festival is to sacrifice to ancestors.Sacrificial activities have been recorded in the Shang and Zhou dynasties.The 40 "Ode" of the "Book of Songs" are sacrificial music songs.It reflects people’s most primitive ancestor worship.In addition, sacrificial activities are inseparable from the filial piety culture advocated by Confucianism in the evolution of Chinese culture for thousands of years.
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