Every year on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month in Dalian, Taoism calls it the Ghost Festival, Buddhism calls it the Bon Festival, and the folk used to call it the Ghost Festival.

Ghost Festival, as the name suggests, means the festival of ghosts. During the festival, folk custom evolved into the custom of ordinary people worshiping ghosts and gods. Ghost festivals can be divided into Chinese and Western ones. There are four major ghost festivals in China, namely Qingming Festival, March 3rd, July 15th, and October 1st. Western ghost festivals include the Mexican Ghost Festival, the Thai Ghost Festival, etc., but the most famous one is Halloween.

In addition to fasting for monks, the Chinese Ghost Festival also includes activities such as worshiping, repenting, and setting off flames. On this day, the Master's Seat and Shigu Terrace were set up in front of Jiekou Village in advance. In front of the mage's seat is the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva who has saved the ghosts in hell, and below is a plate of peaches and rice. There are three spiritual tablets and soul-calling flags standing on Shigu Terrace. After noon, every household placed whole pigs, whole sheep, chickens, ducks, geese and all kinds of cakes, fruits, melons, etc. on Shigutai. The person in charge placed a handful of triangular paper flags in blue, red, green and other colors on each of the sacrifices, and wrote words such as "Bon Lan Festival" and "Ganlu Gate Opens". The ceremony began with a burst of solemn temple music. Then the master rang the bell and led the monks to recite various mantras and mantras. Then serve, scatter a plate of noodles with peaches and rice in all directions, repeat three times. This ceremony is called "flaming mouth".

At night, each family will burn incense at the door of their house and put the incense on the ground. The more the better, symbolizing a good harvest. This is called "cloth field". In some places, water lanterns are released. The so-called water lantern is a lamp tied on a small wooden board. Most of them are made of colored paper into the shape of lotus, which is called "water and drought lantern". According to tradition, water lanterns are used to guide the way for ghosts who have died unjustly. When the light goes out, the water lantern completes its task of luring the innocent souls across the Naihe Bridge.

The shops were also closed that day, leaving the streets to ghosts. In the middle of the street, an incense table is placed every hundred steps, with fresh fruits and a kind of "ghost buns" on it. There is a Taoist priest behind the table who sings ghost-sacrifice songs that no one understands. This ritual is called "Shi Ge'er".