The Hungry Ghost Festival is a traditional festival held to pay homage to ancestors during the half of the seventh lunar month. In most areas, tributes and various kinds of paper money will be placed and burned to the ancestors to express the feelings of the younger generations. So do you know what the customs are during the Ghost Festival in Chaoshan? In this issue, the editor will take you to see the characteristics of Chaoshan Ghost Festival customs.
It is a popular custom to worship ancestors during the Hungry Ghost Festival. The Shigu Pudu Festival in Chaoshan is not limited to this day; however, this day is the official day, which is more solemn. Generally, the charity hall or parents' association organizes devotees to prepare three animal cakes and go to Yi Zhongpu to repair the exposed bones and worship. In the more solemn ones, a Yulan Festival is held, an isolated shed (altar) is built, and a large number of three animal cakes are displayed. Wine, food, paper money, paper-tied clothes, monks and Taoist priests are invited to come and chant sutras and officiate.
In addition to the above-mentioned foods, the sacrifices also include clothes, hats, bamboo hats, etc., and even live pigs, live sheep and cattle. After worshiping, distribute physical objects or numbered bamboo sticks for the audience to grab. This is the so-called orphan grabbing.
"Drag the dead ghost" means asking the dead to have a conversation through a witch. This witch is usually a woman. People cover her eyes with cloth, light incense, and people around her chant incantations to make her entranced. When he found that the shaman was drowsy and seemed to be sleeping, he immediately chanted "One step to urge, two steps to urge, urge Sister Tong, walk with your feet, let go of your hands; one step to roar, two steps to roar, shout to Sister Tong, walk with your feet, and open your mouth." So. The witch has become a medium for dialogue between humans and ghosts, and people can talk to the dead through her.
On the afternoon of the Ghost Festival, children are busy making carp lanterns. They want to imitate the Lantern Festival (Lantern Festival) and have a little fun. Some people put a carp cake on a bamboo chopstick at home, then add various colored flags, incense sticks, and candles on the cake, and light a fire to create a simple carp lantern.
However, people consider July 15th to be the Ghost Festival, so on this night, children are not allowed to play nearby until late at night, and they must go to bed early. In this way, the lantern play cannot help but be cast in a gray shadow, but it also leaves a deep impression on people.
On the Hungry Ghost Festival, offering sacrifices to lonely souls is often associated with praying for a good harvest. On the night of Shigu, every household will burn incense at the door of their house to pray for a good rice harvest, and insert incense branches on the ground. This is called "Bu Tian" (seedling transplanting). The more you insert, the better, which symbolizes a bumper rice harvest in the autumn. As a result, children often like to quietly sneak to the door of other houses to cut "rice", which often causes quarrels and violence among parents.
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