Families welcome their loved ones by decorating the graves with flowers and sharing fond memories of the departed. The festivities and socializing may include skeleton masks and puppets, and food is an important part of the celebration, with candy and breads made in the shape of skulls. Da Jui, the mid-August Feast of the Hungry Ghosts, dedicated to all the unhappy spirits and ghosts who no longer have human descendants to care for them. These spirits are strangers who are unlikely to be remembered and therefore doomed to an afterlife of roaming without the comfort of a final resting place. To keep the ghosts of Da Jui from entering the home, ceremonial rituals are performed outside the home.
Children are usually faster, however, and rush out to gather the sweets.
In other Buddhist cultures, the same festival falls on different days and is given different names. People who have moved to the cities to work return to their hometowns during this period. Great Britain Great Britain has a whole host of interesting ways to celebrate Halloween. Since the Celts believed this was the best day of the year to divine future events, Halloween has spawned many kinds of fortune-telling games, especially about one's marriage prospects. A girl places three nuts on a fire grate, one to personify herself and two to represent potential husbands.