How is the Ghost Festival in 2020, the Year of the Rat? What does the Ghost Festival mean? The seventh month of the lunar calendar belongs to the first month of autumn, and the Beginning of Autumn and End of Heat among the 24 solar terms fall in the seventh month of the lunar calendar. Let’s go to Shuimoxiansheng.com’s special topic on July 2020 in the lunar calendar to learn more about July.How is the Ghost Festival in 2020, the Year of the Rat?Lunar calendar: July 15, 2020 Gregorian calendar: September 2, 2020, Wednesday, Virgo【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】 Marry, migrate, collect money, open business, build bed, build stove, repair grave, recruit son-in-law, offer sacrifice, fast, pardon, take office, travel, wear hairpin, go to school, seek help [Today’s taboos in the almanac] Meridians enter the house, build, start ground, buy property, break ground, build embankments, release water, accept marriage proposals, pray for blessings, seek heirs, ship goods, raise beams, erect pillars, bury, start drilling, lift boats According to the information from the almanac, there are more than 10 taboo items in the almanac for the Ghost Festival on July 15, 2020, so this day is not an auspicious day. What does the Ghost Festival mean?"Zhongyuan Festival" is the name given by Taoism, and it is commonly known as "Mid-July" (or "Fourteenth Day of July") in the folk society. Its origin can be traced back to the ancestor worship and related sacrifices in ancient times. The festival is related to the cycle of yin and yang in ancient culture. In the Book of Changes, "seven" is a changing number and the number of resurrection. July is an auspicious month and a month for filial piety. The Mid-July Festival is a folk festival in early autumn to celebrate the harvest and to thank the earth. When some crops mature, people will worship their ancestors and offer new rice as sacrifices 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.Ghost Festival Customs - Floating BoatsAccording to Manchu customs, various activities are held on July 15th to commemorate ancestors and celebrate the year's harvest. At that time, compatriots living in a foreign land will put their wishes of remembering their relatives and missing their hometown into the small boat floating downstream as a token of their hope. Nowadays, the Manchu people in Guangzhou area of my country still retain the custom of launching small boats into the water on July 15th with words such as "straight up to Changbai" written inside. In some places, rowing competitions are held to celebrate the festival.Everyone's destiny is different, and perhaps it has been determined on the day we were born. But luck is always changing. Do you want to know when your luck will be good? Then take a look at the [Excellent Calculation] below, and may you have peace and happiness in your life! |
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