Comparison between the Ghost Festival and Halloween, what are the differences between the two?
The Ghost Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, while Halloween is a traditional foreign festival. So, let’s take a look at the comparison between the Ghost Festival and Halloween. What is the difference between the two? The seventh month of the lunar calendar is the seventh month of the lunar calendar. Do you want to know the lunar calendar dates for the seventh month of the lunar calendar? Click on Mr. Shui Mo's website for inquiries.Comparison between the Ghost Festival and Halloween, what are the differences between the two?The Zhongyuan Festival is also called the Ghost Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Ullambana Festival according to different names .Halloween is also known as All Saints' Day Different dates : Zhongyuan Festival: 15th day of the seventh lunar month; Halloween: 31st day of the 10th lunar month The atmosphere of the Ghost Festival is different : On the day of the Ghost Festival, adults will remind children not to go out on the streets after dark. If you see people worshiping and burning paper on the street corner, do not step over them, and do not say disrespectful words to the deceased. There are also many taboos of the Ghost Festival, requiring people not to offend the deceased, so as not to bring disaster to themselves and their families. Halloween: On Halloween, it is not ghosts that take to the streets, but people dressed up in various costumes. Introduction to Ghost Festival and HalloweenGhost Festival:Zhongyuan Festival is the name of Taoism. It is commonly known as the ancestor worship festival on the 15th day of the seventh month or the 14th day of the seventh month (another saying is the 15th day of the seventh month). It is called the Yulanpen Festival in Buddhism. The main festival customs include ancestor worship, releasing river lanterns, worshiping the dead, burning paper ingots, and worshiping the land. Its origin can be traced back to the ancestor worship and related sacrifices in ancient times. July is an auspicious month and a month for filial piety. The Mid-July festival is a folk festival to celebrate the harvest and thank the earth in early autumn. When some crops mature, people will worship their ancestors with new rice and other offerings to report the autumn harvest to their ancestors. This festival is a traditional cultural festival to commemorate ancestors, and its cultural core is respecting ancestors and being filial. Halloween: Halloween, also known as All Saints' Day, is a traditional Western festival held on November 1st every year. The eve of Halloween on October 31st is the busiest time of this festival. In Chinese, Halloween is often mistranslated as All Saints' Day. To celebrate the coming of Halloween, children will dress up as various cute ghosts and knock on doors from house to house, asking for candy, otherwise they will play tricks. At the same time, it is said that on this night, various ghosts will dress up as children and mingle with the crowd to celebrate the arrival of Halloween, and humans dress up as various ghosts in order to make the ghosts more harmonious. |
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