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Tonight is #GhostFestival (#中元普渡, #鬼節, #お盆) in Asian Buddhist/Taoist/folk traditions.
Don’t drink, don’t swim or go near bodies of water, don’t wear all white, don’t shave your legs, don’t touch walls —lest you walk into hungry ghosts
[Anita Mui in 胭脂扣 Rouge, 1987]
Don’t drink, don’t swim or go near bodies of water, don’t wear all white, don’t shave your legs, don’t touch walls —lest you walk into hungry ghosts
[Anita Mui in 胭脂扣 Rouge, 1987]
The 7th full moon of the lunar calendar marks the moment that all hungry, discontent ghosts are let out to roam the human realm #鬼月 #中元普渡
[Spirit Traces 仙跡, Yeh Wei-li 葉偉立, 2019 at Taipei MOCA - photos of
ghostly, abandoned places]
[Spirit Traces 仙跡, Yeh Wei-li 葉偉立, 2019 at Taipei MOCA - photos of
ghostly, abandoned places]
Ghost Festival #鬼節 always fascinated me as a kid: the idea that, while one honored and fed respectful ghost elders on Qingming (Tomb Sweeping, in April), one needed to appease and avoid hungry, abandoned ghosts in August. The edict against swimming was the hardest to obey.
