1.20 19 When is the Mid-Autumn Festival?
The time of Mid-Autumn Festival in 20 19 is August 15, Thursday, 2065438.
Suitable for marriage, coronation, sacrifice, bathing, pudu, traveling, collecting money, cleaning the house, collecting livestock and going to work.
Do not open the market, break ground, break ground, load beds, open warehouses or load beams.
2. What are the customs of Mid-Autumn Festival?
offer sacrifices to ancestors
The festival of ancestor worship is on the fifteenth day of July in the lunar calendar, so it is called "July and a half" for short. At this time, the midsummer has passed and the autumn cool has just begun. Folk believe that ancestors will return home to visit their children and grandchildren at this time, so they need to worship their ancestors. Worship ceremonies are usually held in the evening before the end of July, and are not limited to a specific day. You should worship your ancestors on normal days, and generally don't move their tablets. At the time of ancestor worship in July and a half, the ancestral tablets should be invited out one by one, respectfully put on the sacrificial table dedicated to worship, and then burn incense, drink tea and eat rice in front of each ancestor's tablet three times a day in the morning, middle and faint until July 30. If there is a portrait of your ancestors, please come out and hang it. When worshipping, kowtow to each ancestor in the order of seniority and seniority, pray silently, report to the ancestors and ask others to check their words and deeds this year first, so as to protect their peace and happiness. When returning, burn paper money and clothes, which is called burning coating, or Buddhist or Taoist ritual crossing. In some areas of Jiangxi and Hunan, Mid-Autumn Festival is more important than Tomb-Sweeping Day or Double Ninth Festival. ?
Sacrifice land
On July 15, offering sacrifices to land and crops is still a folk custom. Scatter sacrifices in the fields. After burning the paper, wrap it on the ears of crops with cut five-color paper. Legend has it that autumn can avoid hail and get a bumper harvest. At the same time, some places have to go to Houtu Temple to offer sacrifices. Hemp and valley are hung at the gate of Dingxiang county folk custom.
Put on a river lantern.
People think that the Mid-Autumn Festival is a ghost festival, and lanterns should also be put on to celebrate the festival for ghosts. But people and ghosts are different, so a lantern in the Central Plains is different from a lantern in Shangyuan. People are yang, ghosts are yin; The earth is yang and the water is yin. The mysterious darkness underwater reminds people of the legendary hell and the place where ghosts sink. So Shangyuan lanterns are on land, and Zhongyuan lanterns are in water. ?
Sheep sending festival
The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is also called "Sheep Festival". Xu Shen said in Shuo Wen Jie Zi: "Sheep are auspicious." In Oracle Bone Inscriptions's Oracle Bone Inscriptions, it's also called "sheep lead good luck". It can be seen that in ancient times, sheep always represented auspiciousness. In the rural areas of old Beijing and North China, it is popular for old men to send live sheep to their little nephews on July 15th. Legend has it that this custom is related to the legend that agarwood splits the mountain to save mother. After chopping the mountain to save his mother, agarwood wanted to kill Uncle Jiro who abused his mother. In order to rebuild the friendship between brother and sister and uncle and nephew, Jiro gives a pair of live sheep to Aquilaria every July 15. It is said that this is a homonym for taking the surname of Erlang and Aquilaria's mother "Yang" to reunite the two families. From then on, the folk left the custom of sending live sheep to my uncle, and later it gradually evolved into sending a sheep to the other side. ?
In addition to praying for the blessing of ancestors, you can also light a lamp to get rid of the bad luck of yourself and your family and make your fortune better!