As Singapore is multi-cultured country (Island),along with Hungry ghost festival, there are many Interesting festivals celebrated in Singapore. This festival is celebrated according to lunar calendar, in the 7th month of lunar calendar, generally it falls in the month of August or in the month of September.It also falls at the same time as a full moon, the new season, the fall harvest, the peak of Buddhist monastic asceticism, the rebirth of ancestors, and the assembly of the local community.

Hungry Ghost Festival , Singapore

 According to the Taoist Chinese belief, the gates of hell is opened during this month and the spirits of the dead are released and allowed to roam the earth.

Hungry Ghost Festival

These ghosts are believed to be ancestors of those who forgot to pay tribute to them after they died, or those who were never given a proper ritual send-off.

Offer food and drink

Family members offer prayers to their deceased relatives, offer food and drink and burn hell bank notes and other forms of joss paper.

joss paper

Hell money is a form of joss paper printed to resemble legal tender bank notes. This faux money has been in use since at least the late 19th century and possibly much earlier. Joss paper items are believed to have value in the afterlife,considered to be very similar in some aspects to the material world, People burn paper houses, cars, servants and televisions to please the ghosts

offering food and Prayer

Celebration is done by offering food, prayer , burn joss stick and hell money to pay tribute to their forefathers. Worship can be done in the road or in the open ground.

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