Slogan of offering Buddha and fasting monk

People call July the "ghost moon" in the lunar calendar, and July 15th is the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is as suitable for ancestor worship as Tomb-Sweeping Day. But in Buddhism, it is just the opposite. In Buddhism, July represents good luck, and it is the month when people express their filial piety, repay their parents' kindness and plant Futian extensively. July 15 is Sanli Festival, which is a good day for Buddhists to sacrifice to Buddhists and widely plant Futian.

The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is the Buddha's happy day, commonly known as the Sanli Festival, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the "Filial Piety Day". Sanri Festival is a very important festival in Buddhism. On this day, the temple will hold the Sanri Festival ceremony according to the Buddhist Sanri Sutra, and Buddhist disciples will solemnly set up a fast for monks. The two major Buddhist festivals, namely, Sanri Festival and Christmas for Tibetan kings and bodhisattvas, are all concentrated in July. In Buddhist temples, July has also become a good day for Buddhists to worship Buddhists and widely plant Futian. On this day, Buddha is happy and people are happy. This is a very auspicious day.

The Origin of Kogasawara Festival

According to legend, Mu Yulian, a disciple of the Buddha, saw his dead mother incarnate on the road of hungry ghosts, with magical power. He couldn't stand his mother's pain, so he provided food with magical power, but the food turned into charcoal before the entrance, and his dead mother couldn't eat it at all. Seeing this venerable man, he was deeply saddened and asked the Buddha for help. The Buddha revealed that on July 15th, when the monks indulged themselves, they put a hundred flavors of food in the basin, so that the seventh generation of parents could be freed from the three evil ways, and now parents could be happy for a hundred years. The venerable Buddha, who has a discerning eye, dedicated it to the monks, so that his mother could gain great merits and get rid of evil ways.

This is the origin of the Bonsai Festival. "Bonsai" comes from Sanskrit, which means "upside down" (people are upside down). Bonsai is an object used to save the suffering of hanging upside down. Derived from the meaning, the pot is full of all kinds of fruits for Buddhists to fast in order to save all beings tortured by evil ways.