The Japanese Bon Festival originated from the Ghost Festival of China, which is itself a combination of the Buddhist Ullambana and Taoist Zhongyuan .
Significance: The opening of the gates of Hell, permitting all ghosts to receive food and drink.
The Ghost Festival, also known as the Hungry Ghost Festival is a traditional Buddhist and Taoist festival held in certain East Asian countries. According to the Chinese calendar (a lunisolar calendar), the Ghost Festival is on the 15th night of the seventh month.
In Chinese culture, the fifteenth day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar is called Ghost Day and the seventh month in general is regarded as the Ghost Month, in which ghosts and spirits, including those of deceased ancestors, come out from the lower realm. During Ghost Festival, the deceased are believed to visit the living.
On the fifteenth day the realms of Heaven and Hell and the realm of the living are open and both Taoists and Buddhists would perform rituals to transmute and absolve the sufferings of the deceased.
In our calender (Gregorian calender) the 15th of the 7th month would be July, 15th.
It's a sun calender. The year has 365-366 days because that the time of the Earth's revolution around the Sun.
But the moon calendar is different.
🌑 New Moon is always the 1st day of the month
🌕 Full moon is always the 15th day of the month.
But 12 moons are shorter than a sun year.
So the lunisolar calender has sometimes 13 months.
In some years the 15th of the 7th month is in August, in some years in September.
In year 1969, it was August, the 8th.
But when is exactly Urabon???
Which calendar does AidaIro refer to???
Tsuchigomori gave the date of the moon calendar.
Kako said Ubon is getting close.
But Teru said Obon is now.
It was probably July, the 7th month, because it is the first day of the summer vacations.
And there is a full moon, so it's the 15th of the moon calendar.
And was this Urabon, too?
Because it's also the fullmoon of the 7th month?
If so, it would have been an opportunity for Amane to meet a deceased relative?
Maybe Tsukasa, if he's already been murdered by Amane.
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