中元节习俗英文介绍：托福阅读素材

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　　以下是用英文介绍中元节习俗的文章

　　Much like Western culture's Halloween, some Eastern cultures celebrate a Fall festival where they believe the gates of hell are thrown open, releasing hungry ghosts to wander the earth in search of food and taking revenge upon those who wronged them in life. This month-long festival is known as the Hungry Ghost Festival and takes place during the 7th lunar month.

中元节习俗英文介绍：托福阅读素材

　　Unlike other celebrations of the dead in Eastern cultures that seek to honor dead ancestors, the Hungry Ghost Festival seeks to pacify the hungry ghosts, the ghosts of strangers and the un-cared-for dead. These are the ghosts of those who died by their own hands, by accidents, by drowning or hanging who have been denied entry into heaven. Angry because they are forced to dwell in hell without food or comfort, when released, they search for souls to take their place in misery.

　　用英语介绍中元节习俗

　　the Ghost Festival The origin of the Ghost Festival It is said that Ghost Festival was from the legend “Mulian.” When Mulian was ten, he was appointed to be a monk by Kshitigarbha(地藏王). A few years later, his mother died and was sent to the Hell because she did bad things such as beating monks and wasting food while she was alive. When Mulian knew that his mother was suffering from the punishment of “hanging upside down” in the sixth layer of the Hell, he brought food to his mother. Mulian tried to feed his mother but the food turned into flame whenever it was close to her month. Mulian went to Sakyamuni(释迦牟尼佛) for help. Sakyamuni told Mulian about her mother’s sins and told him that if he wanted to help his mother, he must prepare vegetable foods for all the spirits on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. Mulian did it and saved her mother from being a hungry ghost. The seventh month of the lunar calendar is called Ghost Month. On the first day of the seventh month the gates of the Hell are opened and the spirits are allowed a month of freedom in the living world. People prepare all kinds of foods and burn the paper money for the spirits of their ancestors. Businessmen treat the wandering ghost the same for good luck. The three major dates to treat the spirits are on the first, the fifteenth, and the last day of the Ghost Month.

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