Unconsciously more than half of the year has passed, the midsummer has passed, the autumn coolness has just begun, and the mid-year festival is about to pass in the middle of July.

In order to worship the ancestors smoothly, Liu Heng issued an edict, within three days, the whole country, the people forbidden to slaughter fishing and hunting, vegetarian offerings to the Buddha, to help the suffering sentient beings. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

At the beginning, there was a three-senses worship.

Zhengyi League, Weidaoxin Three Officials, that is, Heavenly Officials, Earth Officials, and Water Officials, will be called the Three Officials Emperor in the future. They have their own responsibilities, the heavenly officials bless the Shangyuan, the local officials forgive the sins of the Zhongyuan, and the water officials call the lower yuan to relieve misfortune. The Taoist book says that in these three days, the three officials must check the merits and crimes of the world to determine rewards and punishments.

Among them, the local officials are in charge of the prefecture, and of course the focus of the inspection is the ghosts from all walks of life. Therefore, on this day, all the ghosts will leave the underworld and accept the examination. On this day, the Daomen routinely set up Jiao for the local officials to celebrate their birthdays, and at the same time, the believers also set up fasting for their ancestors to pray for the blessings of the dead, and ask the local officials to forgive their sins and ascend to heaven as soon as possible.

The ritual of worship is held in the evening, and the tablets of the ancestors should be invited out one by one, respectfully placed on the offering table specially for worship, and then incense is inserted in front of the tablet of each ancestor, and tea and rice are offered three times every morning, noon and dusk, and the ceremony is performed as a ritual until the third day of the seventh month.

If there is a portrait of the ancestors, please hang it up. During the worship, according to the order of generation and seniority, kowtow to each ancestor, pray silently, report to the ancestors and ask the ancestors to examine their words and deeds this year, and bless themselves with peace and happiness.

When he sent it back, he burned paper money and clothes, and he did more than the Dharma.

Because I am Liu Heng's queen, I want to worship with him. It's been four years since we got married, and this is the first time I've spent the Central Plains Festival with him.

The palace invited monks and Taoists to help the suffering beings of the six realms. The palace people and attendants of each palace also began to carefully sprinkle and sweep the palace, and the palace maids with skillful hands began to make a face sheep, the sheep is the same as "auspicious", and the sheep means to send "auspicious", representing the auspicious meaning.

Although the ritual in the palace is heavy, but there is also more lively, the palace kitchen made a hundred flavors of food to worship the Buddhas, great virtues, monks of the ten directions devoutly, the people of the Taoist fold the ingots with tin foil, incinerated along the road, called "knotting the ghost" to tell the words of the sacrifice.

After dark, it is time to put the river lanterns, and people believe that the midyear festival is a ghost festival, and the lights should also be put up to celebrate the festival for ghosts. However, there is a difference between people and ghosts, so Zhongyuan Zhang Deng and Shangyuan Zhang Deng are different.

People are yang, ghosts are yin; Land is yang, water is yin.

The darkness of the water is mysteriously dark, reminiscent of the legendary Netherworld Hell, where ghosts sink. Therefore, the Shangyuan lantern is on land, and the Zhongyuan lantern is in the water.

The river lantern is also called "lotus lantern", the river lantern is generally placed on the base lamp or candle, and placed in the river, lake and sea in the middle of the night, let it drift. The purpose of putting the river lantern is to pudu the water ghosts and other lonely ghosts, and the red, red, green and green paper lamps are dotted on the stern of the boat, which is called "Du Gu".

The festival flutters and the palace comes, the Zhongyuan pilgrimage to the Shangqing Dynasty, the sheep right must get the gold bar off, Wen Qiao finally voids the jade mirror platform, the altar drops the locust flower dew, the fragrant cypress wind, the lonely soul water temple in the Yuan night, the golden su fence to see the moon.

"Why don't you put the lights on ......" A warm voice as jade came into my ears, interrupting my thoughts.

I pulled out a smile, "Isn't it pitiful that the dead souls and ghosts can't survive, lingering in hell, trying to survive, but can't find a way?!" ”

Liu Yu handed me a lotus lantern with five-colored paper, looked at the river lanterns floating in the moat, and said to me, "If there is a ghost holding a river lantern on this day, you can survive." ”

"Probably the road from the underworld to the yang world is very dark, and you can't see the road without a light." I reached out and took the lotus lantern.

He went on to say, "It's a good thing to put the lamps on......

"Good deeds......" I muttered, looking at the paper lamp in my hand, there were more worries, one life and one life, it is entrusted to mourn the deceased, to remind people of the kindness of their parents, but I ......

I remembered my mother's words before she died, "Live well......"

"I heard that among the people, married women must go home to worship their ancestors, is this true?" I suddenly asked, which made him stunned for a moment, and then he replied that the folk have called Zhongyuan the "Burning Paper Clothes Festival", and the married daughter prepared the clothes and robes of her parents and put them in a box, and sent them to her parents' house in a sarong, called "yarn box". ”

"I ......don't know, but I heard that when my mother was there, the impression of me during the Midyear Festival was just to put the lamp on the river, and after she left, no one taught me these things, and now I know it, I can't do it, which is probably a pity."

"Every year during the Midyear Festival, I will light a lamp for my mother, and when I see the lamp, she will know that her only son is living well in this world, and there is no need to worry......," he said lightly.

I vaguely remember what Liu Yu once said, and I also guessed about his mother, the woman who favored the harem, Ji Fangfei......

"Ji Guifei, she ......"

"That's my mother, my biological mother, Liu Heng and I are not the same mother......" he spoke slowly, his words full of affection and regret.

"She is the favorite woman of her father, because she is good at dancing, her father built Fangqing Pond for her, she likes orchids, and her father set up an orchid garden to let craftsmen cultivate orchids, even in winter, Fangqing Pond can be filled with the fragrance of orchids......"

"The red candle shadow is close to the fairy, the green ring light is moving, and there are many people, the incense is floating in the hall and the blue musk deer, and the dew is wrapped around the green clothes and miscellaneous Qiluo."

"She is the most beautiful person in the world, but for the favor of the emperor, she is willing to be imprisoned in this harem, sharing her husband's ...... with a group of ill-intentioned women."

Speaking of this, Liu Wei's eyes were sad, and his voice suddenly choked up, "I was killed in the palace, and I couldn't let go of my son before I died, so I begged my father to foster her under the queen's name, she is a good mother......"

If he hadn't said it, who would have known that Liu Heng, who was a fellow mother, was not a mother? I pulled a handkerchief out of my sleeve and handed it to him silently.

Wading in the night sky, I don't know how to return, the jade cave flower has long hair, the moon in the Pearl Palace is the brightest, the long-admired meal Xia Ke, often sad collection of insects, there are people who have not arrived at the distance, how the green finch is a bird medium.

Everyone has regrets, and the loss of loved ones is probably the most painful......

Taking my handkerchief, Liu Wei hid his grief, and then said to me, "Ge'er, do you know, I hate my name very much, the one who holds it, the one who settles the country, and the king is auxiliary, no matter how good I am, my father still let me be Liu Heng's right and left hand, and I am unwilling to ......."

I didn't know how to talk to him, so I was silent, and he looked at me and suddenly said with determination, "He loves her so much, she has nothing, Ge'er, I won't do that...... No matter what you want to do, I'm desperate to help you! ”

Liu Qi left, I stood still, looking at the lanterns in the river, somehow, I cried......