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There were three major ghost festivals in China: Qingming Festival, Zhongyuan Festival, and Hanyi Festival.

Qingming Festival was the fifth solar term of the 24 solar terms, which was the intersection of April 4 - 6 (mostly April 5). There was a custom of visiting graves and going on a walk. People would add new soil to the graves to express their memory of their ancestors.

Zhongyuan Festival was the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. It was commonly known as the Ghost Festival among the people, also known as the Mid-July Festival and the Wangyue Festival in July. The name of the festival came from Taoism, and Buddhism called it the Yue Laan Pen Festival. On this day, the Gate of the Netherworld opened. Ghosts came to the world of the living to receive sacrificial offerings. The human world would hold a "Pudu" ceremony. There were also traditional customs such as setting up river lanterns, burning buns, and dough figurines. There were also taboos such as not walking at night and not calling names. Its embryonic form was the etiquette and custom of welcoming the four seasons in ancient China. There were records in the Han Dynasty. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it was officially recognized as a "legal festival". It was popular in the Tang Dynasty and declined after the liberation. It has not yet been fully accepted by the public. However, four regions have successfully applied for national intangible cultural heritage for the Zhongyuan Festival.

The Winter Clothes Festival was the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, and few people knew about it.

These ghost festivals all had deep roots with the China folk 'ghost' culture. Every era's ghost festival culture had different changes. In the Qin and Han Dynasties, the idea of immortals flourished and ghost festivals were neglected. In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Taoism and Buddhism flourished and the types of ghosts began to enrich. In the Tang Dynasty, ghosts became cute and there were plots of human ghosts falling in love. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, ghosts reflected the true, good, beautiful, fake, evil, and ugly of the human world.
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