What time do you go to bed on Mid-Autumn Festival?
The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is the Mid-Autumn Festival. On this day, the gates of hell opened and ghosts traveled around the world. This is the heaviest moment in Yin Qi. There are many taboos on this day, and I accidentally hit a ghost. So in this lunar calendar, let's take a look at when it is forbidden to sleep on the Mid-Autumn Festival. The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is the Mid-Yuan Festival, and local officials will forgive sins on this day. The ancients had to go out at night to set off river lanterns and shoot guns as sacrifices, so there was no taboo custom of sleeping at a specific time. Just pay attention to the rest time.
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The customs of Mid-Autumn Festival mainly include ancestor worship, river lanterns, worship of the dead, burning paper ingots, land sacrifices and so on. Its appearance can be traced back to the worship of ancestors and related festivals in ancient times. July is auspicious and filial. July 30th is a folk festival to celebrate the harvest and repay the earth in early autumn. Some crops are ripe, so people have the custom of offering sacrifices to their ancestors, offering sacrifices to new rice and reporting Qiu Cheng to their ancestors. This festival is a traditional cultural festival to commemorate ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors and filial piety.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, many people will hold sacrificial activities with wine, meat, sugar cakes, fruits and other sacrifices between the first day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, in order to comfort the ghosts who are playing on earth and pray for their peace and good luck, and to be safe all the year round. More ceremoniously, monks and Taoists were even invited to recite scriptures for the dead. During this period, some people will invite Buddha statues such as Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and Mulian Venerable to be placed on the high platform, or invite artists to play the exorcist Zhong Kui (some artists manipulate Zhong Kui's puppet) to calm the rage of the deceased.