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Is Halloween a ghost festival?
Halloween is a ghost festival.

Ghost Festival refers to the festival of offering sacrifices to ghosts or festivals related to ghosts. Ghosts are an extension of life during the period of human ignorance. The concept of life extension in eastern and western cultures is slightly different, but people dying as ghosts has always been the mainstream of ghost culture.

There are Mexican Ghost Festival in the Western Ghost Festival, but the most famous one is Halloween. In some places in China, four festivals, namely Shangsi Festival (March 3rd), Tomb-Sweeping Day Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Hanyi Festival, are collectively called "Four Ghosts' Festivals".

Popular areas of Halloween

Halloween is mainly popular in the English-speaking world, such as the British Isles and North America, followed by Australia and New Zealand.

Nowadays, the younger generation in some Asian countries also tend to celebrate the "foreign festivals". On the eve of Halloween, some large foreign supermarkets will set up counters to sell Halloween toys, and small vendors will also sell some dolls or models related to Halloween to attract young people's attention.

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