Photo Print: Chinese Opera by Frankie Fong Yew Way

The Ghost Festival, also known as the Hungry Ghost Festival in modern day, is a traditional Buddhist and Taoist festival held in Asian countries. In the Chinese calendar (a lunisolar calendar), the Ghost Festival is on the 15th night of the seventh month (14th in southern China). 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 the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower realm. Distinct from both the Qingming Festival (in spring) and Double Ninth Festival (in autumn) in which living descendants pay homage to their deceased ancestors, during Ghost Festival, the deceased are believed to visit the living. Chinese opera is one of the ghost festival perfomance in the night and this is not for the living but is for the deceased. These was passed down from generation to genration from china in those days.

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