August.

August of the solar calendar is the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and on this day the weather is still hot on our side, there is no coolness, and the day that makes me hang a heart is still two days away, July 14th Midyear Festival!

July 14 is known to be Halloween, and there is a real saying in the Tao. In fact, the midyear festival is the name of the festival set up by the people of our Tao for this day, and the folk have always used the ghost festival, and the people in Buddhism call it the Obon festival.

In the Tao, the foundation of all things in the world is heaven, earth, and water, and the first half of a year is "heavenly official", and the second half of the year is "earth official", and "official" is equivalent to the meaning of "official" in Go. In the earth, all things are born, and water is the root, that is, the so-called central point around, water is the most fundamental point and the most central point, so it is divided into three yuan for a year, and water is the center of the center. The fifteenth day of the first month of the first half of the "Tianguan" is the Shangyuan Festival, and the middle yuan festival is the 14th of July, because the second half of the "Diguan" is separated from the 15th of July, and the next Yuan Festival is the 15th of October.

Taoism is a very tolerant religion that gives people the opportunity to transform and renew themselves at any time, so the "Zhongyuan Festival" is not only a festival that rewards the good and punishes the bad, but is mainly a "forgiveness festival", so the "Zhongyuan Festival" is the "Confession Day" and "Atonement Day" in the Chinese festivals. Under the repentance and atonement, it naturally has the meaning of "release", so that the ghosts who were imprisoned in the underworld and could not be reincarnated so quickly returned to the yang world to see, and it became the meaning of the ghost door being opened.

The ghosts that come out of the Midyear Festival are like prisoners who have been released on parole, they can only come out for one night, and the next day they will return to the underworld. So they are also protected by ghosts, but the meaning of protection is not big, it is more surveillance, and then there will be a lot of ghosts in the yang world.

On this day, we human beings burn incense and worship God to worship our ancestors, and as the younger generations, we are filial piety to our ancestors, so there is a saying that we worship God in the Midyear Festival. It's just that with the development of the times, we have slowly gotten rid of this taboo for ghosts and gods, and many people will not pay too much attention to this day, and Halloween is also regarded as a holiday party, and then it is the day of using the word "Ghost Festival" to put the sister.

The way of worshipping ghosts is different from place to place, and there are a lot of lanterns and the like, and there is a saying that there are lanterns near the water, which means that the ghosts of the ancestors can go to a good place with the direction of the water, which is a kind of sustenance. At the same time, the most important thing in the Midyear Festival is water, so water lanterns are more popular in many places in China.

I didn't have any fear of this festival before, because I used to think that there were no ghosts in this world, but now I can see ghosts, so it's no wonder that I am not afraid of this kind of ghost door when the door is wide open. However, I have a small time around me now, and I also have Zhentan wood and Dao Qi on my body, so I still feel more or less down-to-earth in my heart.

Recently, a lot of things have happened in Tai'an County, and the incident in Wangcun is the biggest one. The bad things that happened in the first half of the year were all revealed because I was able to see ghosts, so in order to make the second half of the year good, the relevant departments decided to make a good show for the Midyear Festival, called Yulan Quyi Show!

It's true that I'm a person in the Tao, but now it's not an exaggeration to say that Buddhism is still relatively popular in China, so it's normal not to use the name of the Midyear Festival.

Tai'an County is a small county town, but some festival customs have existed a lot since ancient times, I remember when I was a child, I heard the old man say that on the day of the Midyear Festival, there will be people to play for ghosts. Speaking of which, there is still a story, in the past, the troupe often went out to perform, to some squires or other occasions to do plays, walked a lot of places, and sometimes would sleep in the wilderness, after all, it didn't earn much, and the stack was obviously not good, and the main thing was that there were not many big places in ancient times, and there was not such a big place to live in the village. It is precisely because of this kind of frequent being out that "worshipping the pier" is naturally indispensable, so during the Midyear Festival, the troupe will perform for ghosts, so that ghosts can benefit from them without embarrassing them.

Therefore, "Zhongyuan Opera" has been called "ghost play" since ancient times, specially for ghosts to watch, and no one will sit down to watch the actions in front of the stage, because those positions are reserved for ghosts, and letting people sit in the position of ghosts is not to give the ghost face, and then the ghost will naturally get angry, and he will naturally do bad things when he is angry. I don't know when this tradition began to be broken, many people feel that there are no ghosts in this world, and slowly the "ghost show" has become a free performance for the troupe, in order to let the villagers continue to support them in the future, this free play is regarded as a gift.

To this day, where are there any free good things, along with the stage that we have not set up in our local area for many years, the troupe is also quite famous in Daliang City, I remember when I was a child, I heard what awards they won on the local TV station, and they can be regarded as the troupe that has won the award. This time it was all paid by the state, and the place where the opera was sung was in Tai'an Square, the most prosperous Tai'an County, and the stage had already begun to be made, and I heard that the relevant local departments spent tens of thousands of dollars to invite those people, and some people said that hundreds of thousands, anyway, the money is higher and higher.

I've never been interested in listening to the opera, because I don't understand, so I can't understand, just like others speak English, those who understand can have a good conversation with each other, and those who don't understand can only stare wide-eyed. And I'm not interested, but there are many people who are interested, after all, freshness is a highly sought-after synonym for modern times. Ten years ago, no one listened to opera, but now there are fewer and fewer people who will join in the fun, and it is also beautiful to take a short video of it. Han Fatzi and Huang Zhenyuan both have a heart to join in the fun, and the two of them are not small, they really want to go out to meet ghosts, Han Fatzi wants to see a particularly beautiful female ghost, and Huang Zhenyuan is to see if there is a handsome Oba appears, he was educated in ancient times when he was young, and he is also interested in listening to dramas......

In the end, I was the only one who was reluctant to go to the theater.

Han Fatzi's beautiful female ghost, Huang Zhenyuan's handsome Oba...... I really admire them, and naturally I know that they are not some kind of villain and nymphomaniac, but just joking and having fun, and I can still understand this. If I didn't know what Huang Zhenyuan was, I would almost have to go with her to be her flower messenger...... cough, I am also relieved to be by their side when I am young, and the most important thing is that it is a very peaceful day for us Dao people in the Midyear Festival, because there are many ghosts and there are many ghosts!

The ability of the ghost is unimaginable, even if we are in the Tao, they are respectful, and even the father who is very powerful when he is young is also polite to the ghost. What I'm afraid of is not that there are ghosts who will find trouble, but that I have yin and yang eyes, and I don't avoid hearing some ghost sounds like I did when I was a child, and you must know that the sound of a large number of ghosts shouting is not something that anyone can bear. The voice of the ghost is very terrifying, and if I am laughing with dozens or hundreds of ghosts together, I can't help but have my eardrum burst......

And two days before the Midyear Festival was prepared, a customer came to my store, a guest I haven't had for a long time, my food and clothing parents!

Originally, it was not easy to raise a small shop, and there was an employee with a lot of wages plus a lot of meals, and now I am like the head of the family, raising a wife and children, cough cough...... This idea must not be heard by Huang Zhenyuan and Xiao, otherwise I will be miserable. But now I'm very happy, because the middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes in front of me looks like a rich man, let me help him experience the ancestral house he hasn't lived in for ten years, and the reward is 100,000!

The salary of 100,000 yuan is not something that anyone can afford, so I am still very tempted about it.

This man's name is Jia Diwu, he is the kind of middle-aged man with masculinity and sunshine on his face, because of his good standard of living, he looks young, and his muscles can be faintly seen under the suit, and he looks like the kind of person who has regular fitness.

His ancestral house is in the county seat, a two-story building in the old street in the south of the city.

I went to the old street in the south of the city when I was studying, and when I went to see that street, it was already a little bad, and the walls of the buildings on the whole street were mottled with traces. Now I heard that many of the old street houses over there have been renovated and tiled on the outside, which looks beautiful from the outside. Listen to it like this, it's just that I haven't looked past it in recent years.

As soon as I heard it, I naturally took over the business, and there was no sign of being haunted by ghosts on Jia Diwu's face, it was estimated that there was no one living in the family for a long time, and suddenly I came back and wanted people like me to go over to live and try to see if it was good. After all, rich people care about a lot of things, and they don't lack that money, and if I live in it and find any snakes, insects, rats and ants in it, they can deal with it. I think he must have sent me there because of this idea, because I don't look like Sydney, and I don't really believe in the fact that he believes in ghosts and gods. But he didn't know that I was able to see ghosts, and I didn't need to tell him.

I finally picked up a good errand, but I couldn't be happier.

Jia Diwu's personality is very straightforward, and he talks to me very directly, and he goes straight to the point, which is a leader who often tells others to do things will slowly cultivate this way of speaking. He said that he had already asked someone to clean the ancestral house today, and that I would be able to move in tomorrow night.

After all, it's a house that has been abandoned for so long, and it is good for me that he can tidy it up and let me go over, otherwise he can let me go and live in it casually. It can be seen that people like him are not short of money at all, and they are only looking for me to live comfortably in the future, after all, rich people have strange ideas.

After exchanging phone calls with Jia Diwu, he left a deposit of 10,000 yuan and left, and I promised him that it would definitely go over tomorrow!

10,000 yuan, the deposit alone is as much as 10,000 yuan, this time I met a "Kaizi".

My industry is not a lie, and I don't mean to treat people as Kaizi, but making others live happily is the foundation of my job. Besides, if there is a lonely ghost in the house that has not been occupied for a long time, I can still help him get out, and I really help him behind the scenes, so I deserve this money, and I will not feel that it is against my conscience at all.