Why does Benxi County kill sheep every Mid-Autumn Festival?

Mid-Autumn Festival, commonly known as Ghost Festival, Shigu Festival and July 30, is called Bonin Festival in Buddhism. New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Chung Yeung Festival are traditional festivals for ancestor worship in China, as well as traditional cultural festivals popular in various countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. The Mid-Autumn Festival has the custom of setting off river lanterns and burning paper ingots.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, called Shangyuan Festival, has been celebrated since ancient times. July 15 is called Mid-Autumn Festival, which is a festival dedicated to ancestors. October 15th, known as the Next Yuan Festival, is a cold food in memory of the sages. July 15th is the Mid-Autumn Festival in the lunar calendar, and July 14th in some areas.

The Mid-Autumn Festival was originally a small autumn, and some crops were ripe. As a rule, people should worship their ancestors, offer sacrifices, such as new rice, and report Qiu Cheng to their ancestors. Therefore, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, every family pays homage to their ancestors. On July 15, I went to visit the grave to worship my ancestors. Overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese will send money in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Zhongyuan Festival, Winter Solstice Festival and Niandou Festival, otherwise they will be regarded as inferior people who are disrespectful to their ancestors, unfilial to their elders and irresponsible to their wives.

Legend has it that all ghosts will be released from the underworld on the Lantern Festival, and people will generally worship ghosts. Anyone who has a new funeral will go to the new grave as an example, but in general places, ghosts will be sacrificed, which has become one of the biggest folk festivals in China.