Starving ghouls...

One of the pics we took during the visit to the cemetery...

The Hungry Ghost Festival supposedly begins today. Wikipedia told me this:

"The Ghost Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and holiday, which is celebrated by Chinese in many countries. In the Chinese calendar (a lunisolar calendar), the Ghost Festival is on the 14th night of the seventh lunar month. In Chinese tradition, the seventh month in the Chinese calendar is called the Ghost Month (鬼月), in which ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower world to visit earth. The Ghost Festival is the climax of a series of the Ghost Month celebrations. Traditionally, ancestor worshiping was an important part of the festivals, with activities including preparing ritualistic offering food, and burning hell money and bags containing cloth to please the visiting ghosts and spirits of the ancestors, as well as other deities. Other activities include, burying and releasing miniature paper boats and lanterns on water, which signifies "giving directions to the lost ghosts and spirits of the ancestors and other deities." A very solemn festival of ancestor worshiping, the festival nevertheless represents a connection between the ancestors and the descendants, the living and the dead, earth and heaven, as well as body and soul."

No, she aint rehearsing... She's performing to necropolis...

I had no idea how serious people took the festival till I came across this in Wikipedia. This girl is singing to a row of hell visitors. They're supposedly seated on the red chairs. In a way its kinda cool but its like money wasted! I bet they spend a couple thousands to do a concert like that... I can think of a million ways to spend that money!

Now... thinking of a seance at my place...