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Hungry Ghost Festival

2007.08.25
Mask uses for Chinese opera.

Offering.

Money donation from public to support the event.

King of the Ghost


I go to see the Hungry Ghost Festival activitiy today. It is Chinese belief that the ghosts, spirits and deceased ancestors release from the hell on the Lunar calender month of July. Activties such as Chinese opera and offerings for the deceased ancestors and ghosts will be organized and performed in whole July. These worshiping activities usually last for a month.

P.S. I am doing a paper with my friend, CP to study this custom. Hope we can present this paper in the conference next year.
39 Comments
fionarobinson love the second one
fionarobinson · 2007-08-25: 07:59
emmetan U know I wanted to go out to take photos of the prayers.... but my colleagues and friends advised me not to.... they kept telling me: Emme, you never know what you will capture in yr pics... DON"T!!!"

haha.... btw, the handwriting in no 3 is so nice...
emmetan · 2007-08-25: 08:03
abbeyh13 great photos!
abbeyh13 · 2007-08-25: 08:25
skrondo great set and great colors. thanks
skrondo · 2007-08-25: 08:29
bobophoto I love the third one! I am proud of Chinese culture!
bobophoto · 2007-08-25: 08:33
jwideman interesting set! thanks for sharing
jwideman · 2007-08-25: 08:53
vmathewk Simply put.. Great set. :)
vmathewk · 2007-08-25: 09:09
kiingusiia Beautiful.... Mabye I should spend my next holiday in China :D

(his name is Dikon :P)

****
Sorry, for my English
kiingusiia · 2007-08-25: 09:12
KC727 Great shots!! I love them all :))
KC727 · 2007-08-25: 09:49
millapiim so colorful....my fav 3 and last one!
millapiim · 2007-08-25: 09:58
Lindyart very colorful .. love the focus in #2..:)
Lindyart · 2007-08-25: 10:14
eljapa Very nice and interesting pictures, thanks for adding the info!
eljapa · 2007-08-25: 10:27
deleted090307 Such a colourful set. Great work...
deleted090307 · 2007-08-25: 10:56
ilyyu Very nice set! I had no idea about this tradition. Thanks for sharing
ilyyu · 2007-08-25: 11:23
rhonnifer incredible colors!!
rhonnifer · 2007-08-25: 11:23
tessyworld Fantastic colors. I like the #3 and
# 5.
tessyworld · 2007-08-25: 11:33
Aniruddha Great colours and angles. The second is my favourite.
Aniruddha · 2007-08-25: 12:18
oobutterflyoo oh my God.!
it's beautyfull.!
great.!
ahh ahh. :)))
i love orient, full of colours. ohh.
kisses
and add to favourite
oobutterflyoo · 2007-08-25: 12:25
mystic1 Those are sooooo cool, Thanks for the explaination, thats really interesting
mystic1 · 2007-08-25: 13:07
longimanus I had to lough when I read your title and than saw your set... You wrote Hungary, instead of hungry... and Hungary is my birth country, so I was pretty surprised to see the (truly spectacular) shots of a chinese event! THose ghosts and ancestorts are spoiled! Great set!
longimanus · 2007-08-25: 15:22
davidcardona Great colours! Wonderful shots!
davidcardona · 2007-08-25: 16:22
Lizzi what a wonderful post..!!
Lizzi · 2007-08-25: 16:44
kangshung Beautiful and colourful!
kangshung · 2007-08-25: 18:56
TIM927 Wow, so colourful,,,, ty for sharing!
TIM927 · 2007-08-25: 21:19
vollenda All the color is beautiful. It's fun to see the elements of the festival thru your shots. :)
vollenda · 2007-08-25: 22:47
harryOB Love the bright colors - great compositions.
harryOB · 2007-08-25: 23:09
nasser so colorful & beautiful
nasser · 2007-08-26: 01:25
misheel love the colours.. very nice..
misheel · 2007-08-26: 03:27
iagho Sounds like a nice festival ...and it also looks very nice from these shots ; )
iagho · 2007-08-26: 05:54
storytaylor I love it. so colourful and artistic.
storytaylor · 2007-08-26: 06:44
dwojuna Great set. :)
dwojuna · 2007-08-26: 07:18
shawnseah WOW!! Amazing set of photographs.

Singapore has similar sights and i should think sounds as well. Maybe i should go down to one of the temples to try a few shots as well. Thank you for sharing!! =)

shawnseah · 2007-08-26: 07:40
Serena I want to go in China!! O__0
fantastic shots
Serena · 2007-08-26: 09:48
LLRui very colorful~~~ :)
LLRui · 2007-08-26: 15:21
OC110481 Sound scary, but very interesting!!:)) Wonderful set
OC110481 · 2007-08-26: 18:33
Godin 2nd and 3rd love the DOF
Godin · 2007-08-27: 03:09
daidailu520 鬼节在香港还那么热闹的啊,看那些面具好漂亮啊
daidailu520 · 2007-08-30: 07:39
ainhoator I want to read that paper! Hope you'll take the pics to illustrate it!
ainhoator · 2007-09-02: 10:32
Aguamala Powerfull colors!!!!
Aguamala · 2007-09-14: 21:26
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