During the Hungry Ghost Festival, it’s common to see small, makeshift alters set up on the curbside outside of homes, and people burning money and paper models of various luxury goods.
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11 Taboos during the Hungry Ghost Festival
Avoid these 11 things to keep yourself protected from ghosts on the Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival, believed to be the night of the year when the barrier between our world and the spirit world is at its thinnest point.
The Hungry Ghost Festival – Zhong Yuan Jie – 中元节
Zhong Yuan Jie (中元节), the Hungry Ghost Festival, is often compared to Chinese Halloween. Falling on the fifteenth night of the seventh lunar month, it is believed that on this night the gates of the afterlife are opened for spirits and ghosts to return to the world of the living.
