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The Hungry Ghost Festival, also known as the Yulanpen Festival, Ghost Festival, or Zhongyuan Festival, is one of the significant traditional festivals in Chinese culture, typicy observed on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month. Its origins can be traced back to the Buddhist Ullambana Sutra and the Taoist belief in the pardon of sins by the Earth Official, blending elements from Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. The core significance of the festival lies in honoring ancestors, delivering souls from suffering, and expressing remembrance and respect for deceased relatives. Folklore holds that the seventh lunar month is when the "Gates of Hell" open, owing wandering spirits to return to the human realm. Thus, people perform rituals such as burning joss paper, offering food, floating river lanterns, and staging operas to appease these spirits and pray for peace. This custom not only embodies the cultural value of filial piety and reverence for ancestors but also carries the traditional wisdom of community harmony and coexistence between humans and nature.

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