Why is July and a half called Ghost Festival?

Ghost Festival originated from Taoism. Why is Ghost Festival in July and a half? This involves Yi Li.

We Han people, deeply influenced by Chinese culture, have a great relationship with metaphysics in national festivals! Metaphysics in ancient China was not only fortune telling and geomantic omen, but also ghost hunting and fortune telling. It is knowledge that will affect national policies! Will affect all aspects of people's lives, so people in Ming and Xuan can see the metaphysical knowledge in China culture.

The reason for saying this digression is that metaphysics has been formatted. In the eyes of many people, metaphysics is to catch ghosts and tell fortune, that is, to look at feng shui, rather than the kind of knowledge that explores heaven and earth to change everything. Metaphysics is based on Yi, which is knowledge to help people do things more easily and live a better life.

Why is Ghost Festival in July (all the months mentioned here are lunar months)? To understand the movement of the five elements in the twelve months of a year, the qi of the five elements will try to live, flourish and die in a year. It can also be understood that these three processes of qi and five elements are going on all the year round. This is also one of the basis of the five elements of the moon column when looking at the eight characters.