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Bookmark or Share- Hungry Ghost Festival, Chinese Zhongyuan Festival - China HighlightsThe Hungry Ghost Festival is one of several important festival days of Ghost Month (鬼月) - the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar. It is thought that the ghosts of Chinese ancestors are let out of hell on the first day of the month.
- Zhongyuan Jie - Hungry Ghost Festival - China Educational ToursThis day is known as Hungry Ghost Festival among the people, the Zhongyuan Festival in Taoism, and the Ullambana Festival in Buddhism, presenting an integration of monastic and secular traditions.
- Hungry Ghost Festival (Ghost Month 2025) - August 23 to September 21The Ghost (Hungry Ghost) Festival 2025 in Singapore and Malaysia will take place on August 18th. The Ghost Month will last from August 23 to September 21, 2025. Singaporeans and Malaysians please the ghosts with live performances.
- Ghost Festival - New World EncyclopediaThe Ghost Festival, also known as the Hungry Ghost Festival, Zhongyuan Jie (中元節), Gui Jie (鬼節) or Yulan Festival (traditional Chinese: 盂蘭盆節; simplified Chinese: 盂兰盆节) and Ullambana Festival, is a traditional Buddhist and Taoist festival held in certain East Asian countries.
- Hungry Ghost Festival | Buddhism, Daoism, History, & Rituals | BritannicaThe Hungry Ghost Festival is a Buddhist and Daoist festival observed in order to appease the deceased who have been reborn as ghosts and return to haunt the human realm. It is celebrated under different names in East Asia and Southeast Asia.
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