The significance of lighting lanterns for blessing and putting out river lanterns on Halloween.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, there will be a custom of putting lanterns, not only sky lanterns, but also river lanterns. Therefore, in some TV dramas, sometimes we will see lanterns floating on the river and in the sky, which is particularly beautiful. In fact, we are mourning the dead. So what does it mean to light a lamp and pray for blessings on Halloween? What is the moral of River Lantern? Let this issue of Feng Shui Knowledge Daquan answer it for you.

Light a lamp on Halloween and pray for blessings.

Light the way home for an old friend.

In ancient times, lighting a lamp, whether flying into the air or putting a wishing lamp on the water, was a way for people to cross the dead, sacrifice their ancestors and place their grief. People think that Mid-Autumn Festival is a ghost festival, and people should light lamps to celebrate the festival for ghosts. But people and ghosts are different, so the lighting in the Central Plains is different from that 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, where they sank. So the lantern on the land, the lantern on the water in the Central Plains. Turning evil spirits into prayer lamps can help to resolve the evil spirits, obstacles, grievances and rage of the dead, improve the fortune of the lamp-bearer, and at the same time, turn over the dead and bless all beings.

The moral of "River Lantern"

Ghosts in Purdue Water

Mid-Autumn Festival, commonly known as "Ghost Festival", has the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors, commemorating and recalling ancestors. Put nostalgia and sadness on a lamp and let them drift with the flow. River lanterns, also known as "lotus lanterns", usually put lights or candles on the base and float in rivers, lakes and seas during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The purpose of river lanterns is to educate drowning ghosts and other ghosts in the water.

Celebrate the ghost

In people's eyes, Mid-Autumn Festival, as a ghost festival, should also be lit to celebrate ghosts. But people and ghosts are different, so lighting on Mid-Autumn Festival is different from lighting on Shangyuan Festival. In five lines of gossip, people are yang and ghosts are yin; The earth is yang and the water is yin. The mysterious darkness under the water is reminiscent of the legendary ghost hell. So Yuanxiao is lit on land, and Yuanxiao is lit in water.