Talk:Ghost Festival

message: I would like to note that El Día de los Muertos (day of the dead) seems more similar to QingMing Festival (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qingming_Festival) than the Ghost Festival.
If there is consensus, can we remove "The Ghost Festival shares some similarities with the predominantly Mexican observance of El Día de los Muertos."? Please comment.
* Well, Qing Ming seems more like, mmm, All Souls Day (as in: the time when you go to your ancestors' graves and tidy them up) while Ghost Festival is more like Dia de los Muertos (as in: when the spirits come back to check out their descendants).  I realize All Souls and Dia de los Muertos are the same day on the calendar, but I always associate the Mexican festival with the skeleton decor and the All Souls with Catholics in general. -grant (talk) 15:19, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've removed the lines mentioning Dia de los Muertos and Chinese Halloween for the above reason.  Paranoid123 (talk) 17:45, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Similarity to El Día de los Muertos (day of the dead) 

message: The accuracy of this article is questionable, at least vis-a-vis the Chinese version of the festival. According to the Hong Kong Tourism Board's website, the "Hungry Ghost Festival" ("Yue Laan Festival", 盂蘭節 ), which occurs on the 15th day of the 7th lunar month, is distinct from the "Autumn Remembrance Festival" ("Chung Yeung Festival", 重陽節 ), which occurs on the 9th day of the 9th lunar month.  The former is where the Chinese burn paper goods and make food offerings to appease spirits who are released from the netherworld on this day each year to revisit their former families. Traditional Chinese belief is that burning paper representations of material goods and money will provide spirits material wealth in the afterlife. If a family should fail to do so, the spirits of their loved ones will become impoverished in the underworld (and thus hungry) and will return on this particular day to haunt their negligent families. The latter is where the Chinese pay respects to their dearly departed by tending their graves, which traditionally required hiking out to rural burial plots. In Hong Kong, these have become an opportunity for a family outing and picnic. There is nothing peculiarly happy, unhappy, delusional or frightening about either. At least no more than any other belief system about the afterlife. They are just Chinese customs. Ejanne (talk) 11:30, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two festivals confused 

message: I'm tagging this article as C-class for WikiProject Vietnam, since the Vietnamese section of this article seems lacking—very little discussion of the differences between Tết Trung Nguyên and the Chinese version. Actually, it seems as though all the regional variations of the holiday could use more explanation. Even in the case of O-Bon, which has its own article, there can be a slightly longer mention in this article. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than I can fill these in. --dragfyre_ʞןɐʇc 16:35, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vietnamese 

message: Every country seems to have their own version, is it really worth having a combined page trying to show that it is somehow the same?
http://www.hkfastfacts.com/Chinese%20Festivals/ghost.htm
218.103.252.196 (talk) 02:09, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  About the Hong Kong version 

message: Zhong Yuan and Chuugen are the Chinese(Mandarin) and Japanese(on'yomi) reading of the same word (中元) written in Chinese characters("Kanji" in Japanese). The connection, while pretty obvious for anyone knowing the Chinese characters, isn't apparent to the typical English reader. Of course, even if it's the same festival the customs are different, but at least the connection is worth mentioning. --Ahyangyi (talk) 17:37, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zhong Yuan & Chugen: mention the obvious connection 

message: When in Taiwan in the 90s I was told that exhibitions of public nudity were an old feature of ghost month celebrations, though these were said to be increasingly rare at the time. The supposed purpose of this was to propitiate the ghosts. The article makes no mention of this. The purpose of this post is to request feedback from better informed editors as to whether it would be worthwhile searching for references with a view to documenting this aspect of the tradition. Qemist (talk) 06:40, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Public nudity/stripping? 

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