Is Mid-Autumn Festival dating a good thing or a bad thing?
Mid-Autumn Festival taboo:
1. Wind chimes are hung on the bedside. Wind chimes are easy to attract ghosts, and sleeping is the most vulnerable time.
2, travel at night, people with lighter personality try not to travel at night.
3. burn paper on non-specific occasions.
4, avoid stealing sacrifices, these are all foods belonging to ghosts.
5, avoid stepping on paper, paper is a sacrifice for ghosts. In ancient times, July and a half was a folk festival to worship ancestors, and it was a festival to remember ancestors. There were not many taboos. These so-called taboos were attached to later generations in the development and evolution of festivals.
Extended data:
The festival customs of Mid-Autumn Festival 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 appearance 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.
Sacrificing ancestors on July 14/ 15 is a traditional cultural festival popular in Chinese character cultural circles of various countries and overseas Chinese areas, and it is also a traditional festival to worship ancestors on the same footing as New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Chung Yeung Festival. 20 10 in may, the "mid-autumn festival" declared by the Ministry of culture in the hong kong special administrative region was selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list.