July and a half is this day.
July and a half is actually the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is the name of Taoism, which is called July 30 and July 14 in folk customs and ancestor worship 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 30 is a festival for people to celebrate the harvest and repay the earth in early autumn. Some crops are ripe, so people should worship their ancestors according to the law 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. Today is also a very important day.
About the origin of July and a half
Mid-Autumn Festival has many origins. But one of the origins of the spread is that this festival originated from the "July and a half" harvest festival in early autumn, and the birth of "July and a half" can be traced back to the ancestor worship and harvest festival in ancient times. In ancient times, people often relied on the blessing of the gods to obtain a bumper harvest in agriculture. Feng's ancestors lived in spring, summer, autumn and winter, but the "autumn flavor" in early autumn is very important. Autumn is the harvest season. People hold ceremonies for the dead ancestors, first offering the best seasonal products to the gods, and then tasting the fruits of these labors themselves, hoping for a good harvest in the coming year. It is closely related to the autumn harvest.
In July and a half, the relatives and friends of the bride cried their hearts out.
It means that getting married in the Mid-Autumn Festival will make relatives and friends feel very uncomfortable. In the Book of Changes: "Repeat the same thing, come back seven days later and do the right thing." In the Book of Changes, "seven" is a changing number and a resurrected number. Seventh, 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-yang cycle. People choose to worship their ancestors on July 14, which is related to the resurrection number of "seven". In folklore, "July 30th" is a traditional cultural festival in memory of ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors' filial piety and never forget their roots. In Buddhism, July is also called "Happy Month", "Happy Buddha Day", "Lucky Month" and "Thanksgiving Month". Buddhism and Taoism have different interpretations of the significance of this festival. Taoism emphasizes filial piety; Buddhism, on the other hand, focuses on the "Purdue" of ghosts and ghosts released from the underworld. The late "July and a half" custom can be said to be a fusion of secularism, Taoism and Buddhism. Generally speaking, Mid-Autumn Festival is suitable for sacrifice, not for marriage.