Xia Yuan Festival as traditionalChinese Folk Festival, the lunar calendar in October fifteen, also known as "the next Lunar New Year", "yuan". The first lunar month fifteen day Han known as theLantern Festival Lantern Festival, but has existed since ancient times; July 15th, Han saidthe ghost festival to honor their ancestors;October 15th, Han said Xia Yuan Festival, but eat cold food, to commemorate the sage.
Enjoy thefestival ancestors
Generallyspeaking, the method of sacrifice to the ancestral temples, countries have ancestral temple, folk have different Zu Xiantang, ancestral temple, through worship, pray FuLu zhenxiang.
Pray for gods
The evolution from the content and object of worship, Xia Yuan Festival also to dissolve in many agriculturalproduction sacrificial customs, make it become a worship the gods, pray, pray for good harvest with disaster evil agricultural worship festival.
Seasonalfood
Xia Yuan Festival also has its unique seasonal food, taking Beijing as an example, the lower Yuan Festival,each and every family have to do "refried beans blossom".
