Important Hungry Ghosts Festival Rules
The Ghosts
Festival represents the most scariest and spooky time of the month as the wandering
spirits are let out of hell and they are allowed to roam in our dimension for a
month! This is one of the tale about someone who accidentally and breaks the
rule during that month.
There are
several important rules to follow especially from the Taoist faith for the
Ghost Festival. The Ghosts Festival (or Qing Ming) falls on the 7th
month of the lunar year and the hells are open and wandering spirits are
everywhere! Some of these basic guidelines are:
1. Be extremely careful of what you are saying as wandering spirits make take offense (angry-lah) at what is said.
2. Avoid speeding (avoid knocking on wandering spirits)
3. Do not spit at the roadsides, stalls etc and definitely do not pee outdoors (an even bigger no-no)
4. Do not step on the offerings (hell notes, food, etc) offered to the wandering spirits
Offering for the Death (tinktravel.blogspot.com)
Harry Chu
just had dinner together with a friend at a restaurant and he was walking back
to his car. At the pavement, he was happily chatting with his friend, when he
accidentally step over a roadside offering and nearly fell forward. Cursing he
kicked at the offerings when his companion screamed at him to stop. Harry sneered
and told his friend that is was only an old wives’ superstition.
