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Ghost Month  

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  • The annual reunion of the dead and the living, known as Ghost Month or Hungry Ghost Month, is the most important Chinese festival of the dead. Daoists (also known as Taoists), Buddhists, and Chinese folk religion believers observe it. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Ghost Month]

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