Hungry Ghost Festival is a Taoist name. It is called the Mid-July Festival among the people and the Bon Festival in Buddhism.

The main festival customs include worshiping ancestors, setting off river lanterns, worshiping dead souls, burning paper ingots, and offering sacrifices to land. Its birth can be traced back to the ancestor worship and related festivals in ancient times.

July is an auspicious month and a month of filial piety. The first half of July is a folk festival in early autumn to celebrate the harvest and reward the earth. When certain crops are ripe, folk will worship ancestors as a rule and use new rice as sacrifices. Report Qiu Cheng to ancestors. It is a traditional cultural festival to remember ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors and fulfill filial piety.