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Is Mid-Autumn Festival Taoist or Buddhist?
Taoist "Mid-Autumn Festival" is the name of Taoism, which is called July 30 in folklore and Lanpen Festival in Buddhism. Festival customs mainly include ancestor worship, river lanterns, sacrifice to the dead, burning paper ingots, land sacrifice and so on. Its birth 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 worship their ancestors, offer new rice and other sacrifices, and report the customs of Qiu Cheng to their ancestors. It is a traditional cultural festival to commemorate ancestors, and its cultural core is respecting ancestors and filial piety. In the Book of Changes, "seven" is a changing number and a resurrected number. The Book of Changes: "Repeatedly.