Mahantesh Biradar

The  Ghost Festival , also known as the  Hungry Ghost Festival  in modern day, Zhong Yuan Jie or  Yu Lan Jie  ( traditional Chinese :  盂蘭節 ) 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  ( 鬼月 ), 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. On the fifteenth ...