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Chapter 224 Zhongyuan Festival

In the memory of Osmanthus fragrans, the Ghost Festival is nothing more than sending money to the dead at night.

But when she saw the Zhongyuan Festival in the Ming Luo Dynasty, she completely understood how serious modern people's simplification of some traditional festivals is.

On the day of the Hungry Ghost Festival, paper money, paper figurines and other things will be burned for the deceased relatives and friends, so as early as three or four days in advance, the daughters-in-law and big girls in Qinhe Village, as long as they are not pregnant pregnant women, will start in twos and threes. Gather together to wrap paper ingots, while the men tie up all kinds of paper figurines, paper cows and horses and the like.

In fact, these things are also sold ready-made in the grocery stores in the town, but because the price is not low, most of the people who buy them are wealthy families.

For such handicraft-like things, Osmanthus fragrans has always been only for viewing, but it can't get involved.

The number of paper figurines or paper cows and horses does not need to be too many. Some people have more money, so they buy more yellow paper and tie more.

But the more things like paper ingots, the better.

In the consciousness of these simple villagers, the more they fold and burn, the better their relatives who have already arrived in another world will live.

Although the Chu family has separated, they still have to prepare together for festivals like this.

Mr. Chu said that the family would pay [-] Wen, including his share with Xu Shi and Chu Liwan, the total would be [-] Wen.

Of the two hundred coins, [-] coins were used to buy the yellow paper to be burned during the Ghost Festival, and the remaining [-] coins were used to prepare the food and offerings needed on the day of the Ghost Festival.

Of course, these are based on the principle of more refunds and less compensation.

But Osmanthus didn't expect that the fifty Wen that her family handed over would be returned.

As for the offerings for the Hungry Ghost Festival, they are not as grand as those for the Spring Festival Lantern Festival.

On the contrary, most of the offerings for the Hungry Ghost Festival are mainly whole grains.

Waiting for Osmanthus fragrans, led by their family members, to come to their crop fields with the five-color confetti that they had cut long ago, and hang these five-color confetti on the crops to pray for a good harvest.

This is definitely the hardest thing Osmanthus has done, because most of these colorful confetti are from her hands.

Sprinkling your own achievements, the feeling is naturally different.

In addition, each household will prepare lanterns in different shapes.

There are no rigid requirements for the color and shape of the lantern, everything depends on the creator's idea.

Although the name is a lantern, its actual shape is not necessarily that of a flower.

Some wax oil will be put in the wick of the lantern, and a cotton thread will be wrapped in the middle, and some people use a little candle holder left over from this year to replace it.

When it gets dark, the ancestors' ghosts and gods have been purged, and after they have had dinner with others, the married man will take the lanterns to the river and light them, and then these lit lanterns will float away along the water.

As for what the lantern is for, Osmanthus still heard the reason from Chu Lishou.

It turned out that these lanterns were prepared for those ghosts who died in vain and could not be reborn.

It is said that if a ghost can catch one of the lanterns, he can be reborn as a human again.

After hearing this, Osmanthus just realized that it is actually just a way for people to accumulate blessings!
But looking at lanterns has become a very interesting game in the hearts of children.

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