Question

he said to me,"there are ceremonies going on".(change into indirect speech)

Answer 1

He said to me, "There are ceremonies going on". Changing this sentence into indirect speech will give us “He told me that there were ceremonies going on”.

In indirect speech, we state the same information but with a description and not the exact statement.

So in the above sentence, he is told that the ceremony is going on and he has to tell it indirectly, so the indirect speech.