Midnight of July 14th to July 15th on the lunar calendar is the Ghost Festival, also known as the Mid-Yuan Festival. Some local customs are 7.14 Ghost Festival, some places are 7.15 Ghost Festival, each local customs are different. The 15th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar is commonly known as the Ghost Festival. There is only one Ghost Festival every year.

Shanxi Province: Lintong County, July 15, burning paper sacrifices Ma Gu. Chenggu County in the Yuan Festival farmers will drink, called "hanging hoe". Yanzhou farmers, the morning of the Mid-Yuan Festival to the field, select the highest, the most dense ears of rice, hanging five-colored paper flags, called "field pennant".

Jiangsu Province: Wu County residents of the Mid-Yuan Festival to tin foil folding ingots, incinerated along the road, called the "knot ghosts". Yizheng County is still popular throughout the paper ghosts, hidden bowl lights, gambling ghosts, drunkards, big old officials and so on. Yixing County in the Yuan Festival in the river to put four boats, a fireworks, a carrier of the Buddha's grandmother Nianfo, a burnt tin foil paper ingots, a river lanterns.

Dong County townspeople eat flat food on this day, is a kind of flour and sugar made into a dustpan-shaped food. Shanghai River Lanterns, in the stern of the boat decorated with red and green paper lanterns, known as the "degree of loneliness.

Sichuan Province: the custom to burn the burden of paper in the Yuan dynasty ancestor worship. To be a stack of paper money, sealed into a small seal, written above the recipient's name and name, the number of seals received, the name of the person and time. Popular legend has it that on July 15, when the ghost gate is closed, all the families have to "send children to the orphans". People around Chengdu use paper to tie "flower plate", put paper money and fruit offerings on it, put it in their hands, and read it while walking around the house: "Friends and relatives, neighbors, original residents, the souls of the dead who can't go back, and all the orphans and wild ghosts, all of them are invited to go on the flower plate, and send you back to the house. After saying this, he took it outside the house and incinerated it.