Statements (48)
Predicate | Object |
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gptkbp:instanceOf |
gptkb:festival
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gptkbp:alsoKnownAs |
gptkb:Ghost_Festival
gptkb:Zhongyuan_Festival gptkb:Yulan_Festival |
gptkbp:associatedWith |
afterlife
ghosts filial piety hungry ghosts seventh lunar month |
gptkbp:category |
Chinese festivals
Buddhist festivals Folk festivals Religious festivals Taoist festivals |
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin |
gptkb:China
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gptkbp:customs |
ancestor worship
floating lanterns burning joss paper offering food to spirits performing Chinese opera |
gptkbp:date |
15th night of the seventh lunar month
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gptkbp:duration |
one day
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
Hungry Ghost Festival
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gptkbp:language |
gptkb:Chinese
gptkb:Thai Japanese Vietnamese Khmer |
gptkbp:mainDeity |
gptkb:King_Yama
gptkb:Tu_Di_Gong Di Zang Wang (Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva) |
gptkbp:observedBy |
Chinese communities
Japanese communities Malaysian communities Singaporean communities Taiwanese communities Vietnamese communities |
gptkbp:purpose |
to honor and appease the spirits of the dead
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gptkbp:religion |
gptkb:Buddhism
gptkb:Chinese_folk_religion |
gptkbp:significance |
believed that spirits return to the world of the living
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gptkbp:UNESCOWorldHeritageSite |
no
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gptkbp:相关节日 |
gptkb:Obon
gptkb:Chuseok gptkb:Pchum_Ben |
gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:Ghost_Festival
gptkb:Chaoshan_region |
gptkbp:bfsLayer |
5
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