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Sart Chinese Day 2023 falls on August 30, 2023

Sart Chinese Day 2023 falls on August 30, 2023

Sart Chin Day or Sart Chin Day (Sart Chin Day or Ghost Festival or Spirit Festival) falls on the 15th day of the 7th month according to the Chinese lunar calendar year.

The Chinese Sart Festival is an important day for Chinese descendants to show their gratitude to their ancestors. by the offering ceremony And it is also considered the month when the gates of hell are open to all souls to receive merit. Chinese Sart Day 2023 falls on August 30, 2023.

Zhongguo nongli qiyue shiwuri shi Zhongyuan Jie.

The 15th day of the 7th lunar month in the Chinese lunar calendar is Zhongyuan Festival. China’s Zhongyuan Festival, also known as “Chinese New Year’s Day”, is a day when all families pay homage to their deceased ancestors. Therefore, sometimes Chinese people call that day GuiJie, Gui Jie or Wangren Jie.

• Gui = Ghost, which is a term for people who have passed away
• Wangren = someone who is already dead
• Jie = festival

GuiJie or Wangren Jie means the festival of offerings to those who have passed away.

History of Sart Chinese Day

The Sart Chin Festival or the Sart Chin tradition is a tradition in which the descendants show their gratitude to their ancestors who have passed away. It is also a tradition All family members do activities together. The Chinese sometimes call the day as Gui Chia or Wang Ren Chia. Which falls on the 15th day of the 7th lunar month in the Chinese lunar calendar, is the Zhongyuan Festival, a Chinese festival day.

Paying respect to the Chinese text falls on the 15th day of the 7th month, which is considered to be the month of the devil. It is the month when the gates of hell are closed and opened. Let all the ghosts come to receive merit. In a year, the Chinese will have to pay homage to the big prince 8 times, called the 8th festival of Po Zhoui. Chinese New Year Day is also the day that Cheng He Tai Di checks the inventory of the souls of the dead. send good souls to heaven and send evil spirits to hell The Chinese feel pity for their souls. therefore making merit and dedicating the charity Hell opens the door so that evil spirits come out to receive merit and merit The Chinese believe that the 15th day of the 7th lunar month is the day when the souls of those who have passed away. will return to the human world to visit their families Therefore, there is a ceremony to pay homage to the ancestors in every household.

Chinese people have always regarded as a tradition. with an offering and will bring sweet and savory food and paper, silver, gold paper to be placed in front of the house or at the intersection for the wandering spirits that are about to pass near their dwellings to come and get food. The house belongs to relatives and ancestors who have passed away. which if there is no worship of wandering spirits It might cause the deceased ancestors to have their food taken away.

Legend of the Chinese Sart Day

• Legend of the Chinese Sart Day, Legend 1

According to this legend, the Chinese New Year is the day when the Lor Tian Zhi (Yam Ban) checks the accounts of the souls of the dead. Send good souls to heaven and bad souls to hell. The Chinese feel pity for evil spirits and therefore make merit and dedicate merit. Therefore, in order for evil spirits to come out and receive this merit, the gates of hell must be opened.

• Legend of the Chinese Sart Day, Legend 2

There was a young man named “Mulian” (Maha Moggallana) who was very strict in Buddhism. Wrong with the mother who was a sinful person who never believed in hell-heaven exists. One year during the Vegetarian Festival, she became annoyed with people dressed in white robes and eating vegetarian food. She then sent Mulian to invite those vegetarians to eat at home, where she would cook a feast.

The vegetarians were overjoyed to hear the news that Mulian’s mother had believed in this merit. therefore brought together to eat at Mulian’s house, but did not know that in the vegetarian soup there was also lard contaminated Mulian’s mother’s actions were considered heavy karma. When he died, he fell into Hell, the 8th Hell, the deepest hell, suffering from extreme suffering.

When Mulian thought of her mother, she took off her divine body and went into the Hell Realm. so he knew that his mother was starving, so he gave her food. But it was devoured by starving spirits, and the grain of the grain fed became a fire that swelled its mother’s lips. But with gratitude and pity for the mother who had suffered so badly, Mulian asked Phaya Ngiam Lu Aung (Yamban) that she would take the punishment instead of her mother.

But before Mulian was punished by bringing his body to boil in a copper pan. The Lord Buddha came down to please him in time. By saying that any karma that someone does will be their karma with Mulian having to chant the Yuan scripture Lan felt and offered food every year in the month when the gates of Hell were opened to save his mother from punishment.

ever since The Chinese have therefore regarded it as a tradition that has been passed on to each other by offering offerings. by bringing both sweet and savory food and paper money and gold paper placed in front of the house or at the intersection not far away It was supposed to divert the attention of the wandering spirits that were about to pass near their dwelling.

Paying respect at the Sart China Festival is divided into 3 sets as follows:

1. Set for paying homage to the gods

This will pay respects in the morning There are savory foods, sweets, Kui Chiai | Kui Chiai As for the special desserts that must be had, which is a tradition of the Sart Chin people, are Khanom Tien, Khanom Kheng, which must be dotted with a red dot in the middle. Because the Chinese believe that red is the color of auspiciousness. There were also fruits, tea or Chinese wine, and gold and silver paper.

2. Set for paying homage to ancestors

It is similar to the offerings that the ancestors enjoyed along with the food. Traditionally, there must be soup or clear water snacks placed next to a bowl of steamed rice. and tea set according to the number of ancestors What can’t be lacking is Kanom Tien, Khanom Kheng, fruit and paper money and gold paper.

3. Set for paying homage

Wandering spirits or spirits without relatives are called Samphawesi or Bai Ho Hia Tee, which means paying respect to good brothers and sisters. It reflects the politeness and respect of the Chinese people. Calling ghosts without relatives our good brothers and sisters By paying respect to the outside of the house, there will be both sweet and savory items and fruits as desired, and the special thing is traditional Chinese fragrant rice, steamed neck, steamed taro cut into crescents on a tray. A large bundle of rice noodles, liquor, tea, and gold and silver paper are all placed together for offerings.

Chinese prayer ceremony

The worship will pay respects in the morning Burn paper, silver, and gold paper until it’s done. In the late afternoon, set the table to pay respect to the ancestors and pay homage to Ho Hia Tee. Some houses are popular in the afternoon. if worshiping together set a separate table But can burn paper, money, paper, gold together

Desserts are used to pay homage to the Sart China festival.

For paying homage to Kanom Kheng, Khanom Tien in this Sart China festival. in China does not exist In ancient times, the Chinese used 5 kinds of rice cakes called Ngoopia, or called a set of names like Pang Pia, Mee, Mo, Kee.

• Pan is a dessert made from sugar.
• Pia is a dessert that resembles a khai dessert.
• Mee is foot mee. Made from rice flour inside the tofu.
• Mua is Khanom Tuek Kee, a red puffed rice cake with a thin filling in the center.
• Ki is a long ki snack made in large pieces, when you eat it, you have to cut it into small pieces.

Because in Thailand, the ingredients used to make these 5 desserts are not complete, so they refrain from it, but Chinese Thais use Khanom Tian. Khanom Khong in respect Mainly, there will be 3 or 5 food items such as chicken, pork, duck, eggs, squid, fish, etc., 3 or 5 desserts such as Kanom Tien, Kanom Mai Tai, Kanom Pui Fai or Pear Pui Fai, Kanom Pia, orange or fruit of your choice.

Sart Chinese Day activities

The Chinese believe that the souls of those who have passed away will return to the human world to visit their families which falls on the full moon day of the 15th lunar month, which is the Chinese Sart Day And on this day, the Chinese people will make offerings to their ancestors in every household by doing the main activities together.

Sart Chin tradition, in addition to being a tradition for children to show gratitude to their ancestors who have passed away. It is also a tradition with good intentions to encourage the whole family to do activities together and happily.