Mid-Autumn Festival is also called Ghost Festival, Dead Day and Half Moon Festival. The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is the Mid-Autumn Festival. People generally carry out ancestor worship activities. No matter the rich or the poor, they should prepare dining tables and paper money to pay homage to the dead to show their memory of the dead ancestors. The Mid-Autumn Festival is usually seven days, and there are new and old dead people. Those who died within three years are called new dead, and those who died three years ago are called old dead. Superstition says that the old and the new will go home to visit during this period, and that the new and the old will come back at different times. The new will come back first, and the old will come back later. Therefore, it is necessary to pay homage separately. The time to burn paper money is in the dead of night. First, sprinkle a few circles with lime in the yard, saying that the paper money is burned in the circle and ghosts dare not come to grab it, and then burn it in piles. When burning, I still keep chanting: "So-and-so will get the money." Finally, we have to burn a pile outside the circle, saying it's for ghosts. On the day when the dead go back, both rich and poor should cook a good meal to honor the dead, which is also called "seeing the dead off".

The fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, is called the Ghost Festival and shi gu. The meaning of Zhongyuan is extended from Lantern Festival. In ancient times, the first full moon in the first month was called Shangyuan (so the Lantern Festival was also called Shangyuan Festival), July was the middle of the year, and the first full moon in July was called Zhongyuan, because it was the festival name.

The Mid-Yuan Festival, also known as the Bonin Festival, was originally a Buddhist ceremony in India, and Buddhists held Bonin Festival to recommend their ancestors. In the Buddhist scriptures, the "Orchid Sutra" aims to cultivate filial piety and inspire Buddhist disciples, which is in line with China's folk belief of pursuing the first and mourning for the distant, so it has become more and more popular.

The story of "Mu Lian rescues Mu Er" is widely circulated among the people: "He who has a Mu Lian monk has great power. His mother fell into the hungry ghost road, and the food entrance turned into flames, and the hunger was too bitter. Mulian couldn't save her mother, so she asked the Buddha for advice. In order to talk about the scriptures of the orchid basin, she taught to make an orchid basin on July 15 to save her mother. "

China followed this example from the Liang Dynasty, and it is said that it became the Mid-Yuan Festival. Later, however, in addition to setting up a fast for monks, activities such as confessing and setting fire to the mouth were also added. On this day, the Master's Block and shi gu Terrace were set up in front of Jiekou Village in advance. In front of the mage's seat, there is a bodhisattva, the earth treasure king who crosses the hell, and below it is a plate of peaches and rice. Shi gu stands on the stage with three spiritual tablets and evocative complications. After noon, families put whole pigs, whole sheep, chickens, ducks, geese and all kinds of cakes, fruits, melons and fruits on the shi gu stage. The person in charge inserted a triangular paper flag in blue, red and green on each sacrifice, and wrote the words "Yulan Festival" and "Ganlu Gate Open". The ceremony began with a solemn temple music. Then the mage rang the bell and led the monks in the seat to recite various spells and mantras. Then feed, sprinkle a plate of peaches and rice in all directions, and repeat it three times. This ceremony is called "Flame Opening".

at night, families have to burn incense at their doorsteps, and put incense on the ground. The more incense, the better, which symbolizes the bumper harvest of grains. This is called "spreading fields". In some places, there are water lanterns. The so-called water lanterns are tied to a small wooden board, and most of them are made of colored paper into lotus shapes, which are called "flood and drought lanterns". According to tradition, water lanterns are used to guide those who are unjust and dead. When the light goes out, the water lamp has completed the task of guiding the ghosts across the Naihe Bridge.

the shops were closed that day, and the streets were given to ghosts. In the middle of the street, there is an incense table every hundred steps. There are fresh fruits and a kind of "ghost steamed stuffed bun" on the incense table. Behind the table, there are Taoist priests singing ghost songs that people can't understand. This ceremony is called "singing songs".

Shangyuan Festival is the Lantern Festival on earth, and people decorate lanterns to celebrate Lantern Festival. "Zhongyuan" comes from Shangyuan. People think that the Mid-Autumn Festival is a ghost festival, and lights should be put on to celebrate the festival for ghosts. However, people and ghosts are different, so a lantern in Zhongyuan is different from a lantern in Shangyuan. Man is yang and ghost is yin; Land is yang, water is yin. The mysterious darkness under the water reminds people of the legendary hell, where ghosts sink. Therefore, the lantern in Shangyuan is on land and the lantern in Zhongyuan is in water.