Hungry Ghost Festival

GPTKB entity

Statements (48)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:festival
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
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
gptkbp:duration one day
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Hungry Ghost Festival
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
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Buddhism
gptkb:Chinese_folk_religion
gptkbp:significance believed that spirits return to the world of the living
gptkbp:UNESCOWorldHeritageSite no
gptkbp:相关节日 gptkb:Obon
gptkb:Chuseok
gptkb:Pchum_Ben
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Ghost_Festival
gptkb:Chaoshan_region
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5