Ghost Festival

[tonado]

My wife just told me she would make some pictures of this ghost day and I will pass them along. Did you say it was next week or Sept 26?

 

Please no. Bad luck.

[Guest ShaQuaNew]

Lan says, "I don't want to celebrate ghosts." Ni zai gan shen me gui dong dong. "Ghosts celebrate that day, not live people."

Edited August 21, 2007 by ShaQuaNew (see edit history)

[tonado]

Lan says, "I don't want to celebrate ghosts." Ni zai gan shen me gui dong dong. "Ghosts celebrate that day, not live people."

 

Very correct. This festival is not our Halloween in which kids have fun.

[david_dawei]

Lan says, "I don't want to celebrate ghosts." Ni zai gan shen me gui dong dong. "Ghosts celebrate that day, not live people."

Just goes to show you how far from tradition one gets when it's no longer looked up... the communist [ideology] would be very happy with this... that was/is one of their main goals... to dismantle this whole ancestor worship bit and other traditions of old.

[Urkidding]

Lan says, "I don't want to celebrate ghosts." Ni zai gan shen me gui dong dong. "Ghosts celebrate that day, not live people."

Just goes to show you how far from tradition one gets when it's no longer looked up... the communist [ideology] would be very happy with this... that was/is one of their main goals... to dismantle this whole ancestor worship bit and other traditions of old.

 

and even after they suppressed them for 50 years the old timers would let them be forgotten...

[chilton747]

My wife just told me she would make some pictures of this ghost day and I will pass them along. Did you say it was next week or Sept 26?

 

Please no. Bad luck.

 

No worries Tony. They will be only for those who request them

[IllinoisDave]

Lan says, "I don't want to celebrate ghosts." Ni zai gan shen me gui dong dong. "Ghosts celebrate that day, not live people."

This is basically what my SO said when I asked her about it. I guess I can take that one off the calender.

[shaffej7070]

Death or dying is taboo subject with Lao Po.

[chilton747]

Ghost day was in full swing yesterday (China time) at my wife's city. I have a couple of pics to share if anyone wants to PM me. It is interesting that she told me the people burn gifts to the ghosts to keep them pacified and keep them from harming the people FYI, my wife does not believe in ghosts. She finds all of this rather amusing.