What is the date of the Chinese New Year’s Day in 2021?
Zhongyuan Festival is an ancient traditional festival in my country, the festival time is in the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year Fifteen, so it is also called July and a half.And July 15, 2021 is August 22, 2021 in the Gregorian calendar.On this day, we need to worship ancestors and worship ghosts and gods.
Introduction to Zhongyuan Festival
Zhongyuan Festival is the name of Taoism, and is commonly known as July and a half and July 14 (another saying is July 15) Ancestor worship festival, which is called Ubon Festival in Buddhism.The festival customs mainly include worshiping ancestors, putting river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper ingots, and offering sacrifices to the land.Its origin can be traced back to the worship of ancestral spirits and related rituals in ancient times.July is the auspicious month and the month of filial piety.The half of July is a folk festival in early autumn to celebrate the harvest and reward the earth.When some crops are mature, the folks should make sacrifices to ancestors as a rule, and use new rice and other offerings to report the autumn to the ancestors.The festival is a traditional cultural festival in memory of ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors and filial piety.
Historical Origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Yuan Festival originated from the early "July and a half" farming harvest and autumn sacrificing ancestors.The birth of "July and a half" can be traced back to Ancient ancestor worship and harvest festival.In ancient times, people often relied on the blessing of gods for the harvest of farming.The worship of ancestors can be found in spring, summer, autumn and winter, but the "autumn taste" in early autumn is very important.Autumn is the harvest season.People hold sacrifices to ancestors and deceased souls, offering seasonal delicacies to gods, and then tasting the fruits of these labors and praying for a good harvest in the coming year.
"July and a half" was originally a folk ancestor worship festival in ancient times, and it was called "Zhongyuan Festival", which originated from the Taoism after the Eastern Han Dynasty.Taoism has the "Three Yuan Theory", "the heaven officials give blessings on the upper side, the earth officials in the middle Yuan forgive sins, and the water officials lower the yuan to resolve misfortunes.The name "Zhong Yuan" comes from this.Buddhism calls the seventh month and a half "Yu Yu".Lanpen Festival".In the Tang Dynasty when the rulers respected Taoism, the Taoist Zhongyuan Festival began to flourish, and "Zhongyuan" was gradually fixed as the festival name.>
The time of the Mid-Yuan Festival in 2021
In "Book of Changes", "seven" is a number that changes and is the number of resurrection."Book of Changes":repeating its way, seven days Coming back and forth is the way of the sky.The number of seven is expressed in stages in time among the people.When calculating the time, "seven seven" is often used as the final and resurrection."July is an auspicious month, a month of filial piety, and the 14th day (Twenty-seven) is the period number of the "seven" number.The ancients chose to worship their ancestors on July 14th (July and a half), which is related to the number of resurrection "seven".Therefore, the annual Zhongyuan Festival is on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, and the Zhongyuan Festival in 2021 is on August 22, 2021 on the Gregorian calendar.
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