Hanging wind chimes at the bedside
Wind chimes are easy to attract good brothers, and sleeping is the most vulnerable time, don't you think?
moonlighting
People with lighter personalities should never travel at night, otherwise they will only ask for trouble.
Pulled hair
As the saying goes, "one hairy foot controls three ghosts", so the hairy feet make people more afraid of ghosts.
Burning paper in non-specific occasions
Ghost paper is burned for good brothers, and gold paper is burned for god. Burning ghost paper will only attract more good brothers.
Steal a sacrifice
These foods belong to good brothers. If you use them without their consent, it will only bring you bad luck.
Hang clothes at night.
When a good brother thinks your clothes look good, he will borrow them and leave his taste on them.
Shout names
Don't call names when you go out at night. Try to give it a code name so as not to be remembered by good brothers.
swim
At this time, good brotherhood plays the game of ghost lifting feet with you, and if you are not careful, your life will be taken away.
Look around.
Good brothers like to hide and scare people. In case they look around and get scared, that's the best time for them to invade you.
The banyan tree is placed at the door.
Because banyan is a shade-gathering plant, and it is also the favorite of good brothers, unless you want good brothers to come and sit at home.
stay up late
The busiest time is midnight, and the most haunted time is midnight. By contrast, who will win?
Against the wall
Good brothers usually like to rest against the cold wall, which is easy to cause ghosts.
Pick up money by the roadside
Money is used to buy cow's head and horse's face. If you infringe on their things, it will be easy to teach them a lesson.
Turn back easily
Walking in the wild or sparsely populated places, it feels like someone is calling you. Don't turn around easily Probably good brothers.
You can't go back and forth anywhere.
A person has three fires, one on his head and the other on his left and right shoulders. As long as 1 goes out, it is easy to be "upper body" by good brothers.
The slipper head faces the bed.
A good fraternity can tell where a stranger is by looking at the direction of his toes. If the toes are pointing to the bed, then good brothers will do it. The bed sleeps with you.
Chopsticks are inserted in the middle of rice.
This is the mode of worship, just like the incense burner, which will only attract good brothers to share food with you.
one person
It is true that a person is easily coveted by a good brother.
Take pictures at night
This move is easy to bring friends from the spiritual world home together.
Play with the disc fairy
It's easy to play disc fairy at ordinary times, not to mention this Halloween.
Slippers are neatly placed beside the bed.
Are slippers fixed when traveling outside? Strolling around B's bedside will arouse the curiosity of friends in the spiritual world and cause them to go to bed.
What are the customs around Halloween?
Hebei Province: Nanpi County brought fruit, bacon, wine and money to the ancestral grave on July 15. It is called "recommending new things" to hold a hemp valley to a field stalk. The Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangping County offers fresh food to worship ancestors, and prepares fruits and vegetables and steamed sheep for grandchildren, which is called "sending sheep". On July 15, Qinghe County went to the grave to pay a sacrifice and offer steamed sheep to her daughter.
Shanxi Province: Scholars in Yonghe County offer sacrifices to Kuixing on this day. The shepherd family in Zhangzi County slaughtered sheep in the Mid-Autumn Festival, competing with the gods. It is said that this can increase the output of sheep. Meat is also given to relatives, while those who are poor and have no sheep use steamed noodles in the shape of sheep instead. Farmers in Yangcheng county make cats, tigers and grains from wheat crumbs and sacrifice them in the fields, which is called "going to the fields". People in Mayi County take wheat flour as the shape of children in the Mid-Autumn Festival, named "Mianren", and give each other children from relatives. Farmers in Xinxian County hang colored paper on the stalks of fields on the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Henan Province: When the Central Plains worships the local officials in Shangqiu County, a paper flag is hung at the door, which is said to prevent insects. Flying kites during Mid-Autumn Festival in Mengjin County. ? On July 15, the county drew a gray circle in front of the door and burned paper gongs in the circle to worship the ancestors.
Jiangxi Province: People in Ji 'an burn paper and ingots on the Mid-Autumn Festival, but pregnant women are forbidden to fold paper ingots. It is said that the paper ingots folded by pregnant women cannot be carried by ghosts after being burned, and it is also impossible to send them to the underworld. When releasing the flame, the mage threw buns and fruits at the audience. Legend has it that a woman grabbed a steamed stuffed bun and had a child the next year. A child who robs steamed stuffed buns will never be afraid in his life. Ancestor worship in Anyuan County began on July 12, and incense and tea were burned in the morning and evening. On the fifteenth night, burn clothes and give paper money.
Water discharge lamp: it is a special activity near the port, aiming at crossing the ghosts in the water. Because people often drown or the crew disembark at the seaside, they take care of the water besides the ghosts on land. The most famous Lantern Festival in Taiwan Province Province is Keelung, which attracts a large number of tourists every year.
Robbery of orphans: In some places in Taiwan Province Province, the activity of "robbing orphans" was popular in the mid-Yuan Dynasty. The lonely shed consists of four pillars coated with butter. The contestants were divided into four teams and climbed up the solitary shed from four directions. On the top of the lonely shed, there are sacrifices on all sides, and the team that grabs it first wins. This activity has become the most important activity in Shantou, attracting many tourists.
Shandong Province: fishermen in Long Island made boats out of wooden boards, put "×××" notes on them, put food, clothes, shoes and socks on them, and then lit candles. The married man put the boat into the sea. Families in Zhanhua County set up sheds with fresh grass leaves, picked Kyle, called it "Ma Wu", and asked their ancestors to put them in it for sacrifice. Ling Du county calls the Mid-Autumn Festival "pinch festival", and every family eats humble meals.
Shaanxi Province: Lintong County burned paper to worship Ma Gu on July 15. In Chenggu County, farmers will drink alcohol on the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is called "hanging hoes". Yannong went to the field in the morning of Mid-Autumn Festival, chose the highest and densest ear of rice, hung a five-color paper flag and named it "Tian Zan".
Jiangsu province: residents of Wuxian county fold gold ingots with tin foil during the Mid-Autumn Festival and burn them along the road, which is called "ghost fate". There is still a kind of paper ghost circulating in Yizheng county, which contains bowl lamps, gamblers, drunkards and senior officials. There are four boats in the Zhongyuan Festival River in Yixing County, one is the flame mouth, the other is the Buddha chanting, the other is the tin foil ingot burning, and the other is the river lantern. On this day, villagers in Dong Xian eat flat food, which is a dustpan-shaped food made of flour and sugar. When releasing river lanterns in Shanghai, the stern is decorated with red and green paper lanterns, which are called "degrees".
Guangdong Province: Qujiang County? On July 15, the clansmen offered sacrifices to their ancestors and the king of the head of the dog, and rewarded God with singing and dancing for the little boy and girl in flowered clothes. People in Guishan County regard July 14 as the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is said that because Yuan soldiers went south in those days, in order to avoid chaos, the festival was celebrated one day in advance. In Chenghai county, ancestor worship and kitchen god are held on the Mid-Yuan Festival. In the central plains of Deqing, winter leaves were wrapped in flour to make cakes, which were called "bridges" to worship ancestors.
In ancient Shigu, Chaoyang County, wealthy families would buy plows, waterwheels and even girls from poor families, write them on paper and scatter them when giving food. If you can't afford farm tools or a wife, you can get a voucher.
Guangxi province: Yangshan people take July 14 as the festival of eye contact, killing ducks to worship their ancestors. There were no pedestrians on the road that day, so it was called "hiding ghosts".
Fujian: In the Mid-Autumn Festival in Yongfu County, married women must go home to worship their ancestors. Fuzhou dialect calls the Central Plains "Paper Burning Festival". The married daughter prepares her parents' clothes and robes, puts them in a box called a "gauze box" and sends them to her parents' home. There was a custom of Pudu in the middle of Yuan Dynasty in central Fujian, which was held in both urban and rural areas, and its funds were raised by people along the gate. Even the poorest families will try their best to raise money to cope.
There is a proverb: "Pudu does not pay, and the plague is in front of us." Purdue does not contribute, and the dwarf comes to pick it up. " There are also children's bands performing in Purdue.
Sichuan Province: Burning paper to worship ancestors in the Central Plains is a custom in Sichuan Province. That is, a stack of paper money is sealed in a small envelope, and the name and title of the recipient, the number of envelopes received, and the name and time of the silk changer are written on the envelope. It is said that the Gate of Ghost was closed on July 15, and all families had to "send their children to Shigu". Chengdu people tied a "flower tray" with paper, put paper money and fruit offerings on it, and walked around the room, saying, "Dear friends, neighbors, former residents, ghosts who can't bear to go back, please put on the flower tray and send you back!" After that, the back end is incinerated outside the house.
Zhejiang Province: Jiashan County regards the rain of Mid-Autumn Festival as a sign of rice harvest. In Tonglu County, people sing gongs and scatter rice in the wild on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, which is called "giving food". The Lanshe Society in eastern Zhejiang invited 24 old ladies to recite the scriptures and "walk eight knots". Eating "jiaozi Cake" on the rooftop during Mid-Autumn Festival is similar to spring rolls. There is also the custom of putting up street lamps. There are six able-bodied men as a group: one who plays gongs, one who plays bangzi, one who carries lanterns, one who sprinkles salty rice along the way, one who makes incense along the way (inserted on a sweet potato or taro), and one who makes tofu and rice balls along the way (placed on a big leaf), with a sacrifice every hundred steps or so.
Yunnan province: Tengyue people burned buns after offering sacrifices to their ancestors, carved a cucumber into a boat shape, called a "cucumber boat", and incinerated it with the bag.
Purdue: During Purdue, sacrifices will be placed on the altar in front of every house, and paper lanterns will be hung under the eaves to illuminate the road, so that ghosts can find a place to support themselves. Purdue usually centers on temples, and nearby residents go to the temples to worship with sacrifices.
The origin of the Mid-Autumn festival
With regard to the origin of Ghost Festival, it is said that the Tibetan Bodhisattva whose mother died came to the underworld and was imprisoned in a cell. She is a filial daughter and can't bear to see her mother suffer. On July 15, she had an affair and asked the child guarding her cell to secretly open the cell door and let her mother out. But it doesn't matter whether she opened the prison door or not. The children in her cell came to this world in droves to hurt people. Those ghosts who run back to their hometown ask for money from home, let them go back to life and get through their joints, hoping to support their lives as soon as possible. Later, people designated this day as Ghost Festival.
On Halloween, people will burn paper money and offer sacrifices to show their respect for their deceased relatives.
On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, both Buddhism and Taoism summarized their criticisms, and both of them conducted corresponding textual research activities. The difference is that the Taoist investigation report points to people, that is, the date of birth of the school. Buddhist concluding comments are all made internally. Both the birth date of the external school and the internal criticism meeting show that Buddhism and Taoism attach importance to July 15th. Or explain the importance of this day in Buddhist and Taoist festivals. Coupled with the so-called ghost festival, this time is even more colorful. School birthdays and self-indulgent days are only a small part of this season's customs and activities. In addition, there are important custom saving activities in the year, such as offering sacrifices to ancestors and recommending new people, lighting lamps for ghosts and bonsai festivals.
Kasahara Festival is an important ceremony in the Buddhist New Year ceremony. For example, it is held on July 15 every year, so the Mid-Yuan Festival is also called the Arahara Festival.
Despite thousands of years of active obedience and passive domestication, the traces of Buddhism remain clearly in the activities of the people in the Mid-Autumn Festival. First of all, Eupolyphaga is a transliteration of Sanskrit, which means "upside down". The combination of euglena and birdbath is the savior, that is, "saving upside down"; In addition, the blue flowerpot can also be interpreted as a "hanging basin", highlighting its characteristics of "putting a hundred meals".
River lanterns are also called "lotus lanterns". Generally, lights or candles are placed on the base, and they are placed in rivers, lakes and seas during the Mid-Autumn Festival, allowing them to float. The function of river lanterns is to drown ghosts and other ghosts in Purdue water. A passage in the biography of Hulan River by Hong Xiao, a modern woman writer, is the best footnote of this custom: "July 15th is Ghost Festival; You damn fool can't keep alive, and it's hard to wander in hell. They want to support themselves, but they can't find the direction.
On this day, a fool holds a river lantern and has to hold it for a lifetime. "Probably this road from the underworld to death is very dark, and there is no light to see the road. So turning on the light is a good thing. It can be seen that the living gentlemen have not forgotten the dead ghosts.