Shangyuan Festival, also known as Tianguan Festival and Lantern Festival, is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, also known as Shangyuan Festival. This festival, which originated from Taoist belief, is a festival for Taoist immortals and heavenly god blesses the people. In ancient times, people would hold grand celebrations on this day, including offering sacrifices to celestial officials, enjoying lanterns and eating Yuanxiao.
The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Local Officials' Day and Kogasawara Festival, falls on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month. This festival originated in Buddhism to commemorate the Boning Festival of Sakyamuni. In China, the Mid-Autumn Festival is regarded as a ghost festival, where people worship their ancestors and burn paper money.
The next Yuan Festival, also known as Water Joint and the next Yuan Festival, is on the 15th day of the 10th lunar month. This festival also comes from Taoist belief, and it is a festival to commemorate the water official Dayu. In ancient times, people would offer sacrifices to water officials on this day and pray for water gods to protect water supply.
Generally speaking, Shangyuan Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Xiayuan Festival are important festivals in the ancient traditional culture of China, representing the blessing, ancestor worship and prayer activities of celestial officials, local officials and water officials respectively.
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The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival and Lantern Festival. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called night "night", so they called the fifteenth day of the first month "Lantern Festival". Yuanxiao was only called the fifteenth day of the first month, the first half of the first month or the full moon when the early festivals were formed, and it was called Yuanxiao or Yuanxiao after Sui. Influenced by Taoism in the early Tang Dynasty, it was also called Shangyuan, but it was only in the late Tang Dynasty that it was occasionally called Yuanxiao.
The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from Taoism after the Eastern Han Dynasty. Taoism has a "ternary theory", so it is named "Zhongyuan" because "Heaven officials bless Yuan, local officials forgive sins in Yuan, and water officials forgive Eritrea in Yuan". Buddhism calls July and a half the "Kasahara Festival". In the Tang Dynasty, the rulers respected Taoism, and the Taoist Mid-Autumn Festival became popular, and gradually fixed the "Mid-Autumn Festival" as the name of the festival, which was set on July 15 and has continued to this day.