Honorable Mention / 2023 / Press / Travel/Tourism

Taiwan Ghost Moon

  • Photographer
    Jun Yan Wu , Taiwan
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The belief in the Zhongyuan Festival originated in ancient China. It is divided into Shangyuan Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Xiayuan Festival. etiquette.

The Hungry Ghost Festival falls on the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year. In order to celebrate the harvest in early autumn, the ancient emperors would sacrifice new grains to the ancestral temples to repay the earth and express their gratitude to the ancestors. After Taoism was integrated into Zhongyuan, people began to have the custom of worshiping ancestors on Zhongyuan Festival, and prayed to the Emperor o