Hungry Ghost Festival Archives - Journeys & Jaunts https://journeysnjaunts.com Explore Shenyang, China, and beyond Wed, 11 Aug 2021 16:48:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0 https://journeysnjaunts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/0761201ed5ccd801f3c799c365d5c7f-150x150.png Hungry Ghost Festival Archives - Journeys & Jaunts https://journeysnjaunts.com 32 32 Discover the Hungry Ghost Festival https://journeysnjaunts.com/2021/08/21/discover-the-hungry-ghost-festival/ https://journeysnjaunts.com/2021/08/21/discover-the-hungry-ghost-festival/#respond Sat, 21 Aug 2021 09:00:00 +0000 https://journeysnjaunts.com/?p=14787 The (Hungry) Ghost Festival (中元节,  zhōngyuán jié) is a Buddhist and Taoist festival held on the 15th night of the 7th month of the Chinese lunar calendar. Tradition claims that the 7th month of the lunar calendar is ghost month, where ghosts and the spirits of your dead ancestors come back to earth to visit the living. Ghost Day is […]

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