The banner reads "Happy Halloween" which contains a call to celebrate Halloween in some corner of the city mounted in Jakarta. Halloween was already part of the culture of the metropolis. The Europeans, Americans and several countries in the world celebrate Halloween every year on October 31. In the Western world, the day believed to be a "victory over the ghost", is eagerly awaited. Lay people commonly call it a day of celebration and gathering rose ghosts or "ghost feast". Even in Ireland, Halloween has become a national holiday and is celebrated on a large scale.
Hungry Ghost Festival in China
The festival is actually a bit similar to the usual Halloween party is celebrated by Western culture. The difference in this festival there are no people who wear clothes like the spooky Halloween party.
If you are in Singapore at this festival takes place, you will feel slightly different nuances of the cities of Singapore. Where you'll see a lot of the offerings that lay along the road, especially around housing residents. According to their beliefs in every month of the seventh Chinese lunar (Chinese Lunar Calendar) the ghosts will be freed from the underworld into the real world for a full month. Where the ghosts are going to eat as much as possible before they return to the underworld where they will suffer again. So suasananyapun be a little scary when the night because inevitably we continue to imagine that the ghosts are all around us.
Here are some detailed explanation of the festival.
What is the hungry ghosts? What are hungry ghosts?
Buddhists from Tibet illustrates this ghost like form of tears, her neck is small and a big belly. The ghosts are always hungry because they are in great pain when food is a little past their throats but they must eat a lot to be able to satiate their bellies are great. Some describe their mouths just as small as the eyeball and belly of the mountain.
Hungry Ghost Festival in Singapore
Every year, usually in September, the ethnic Chinese in Singapore carry out large-scale tradition to honor the dead. Followers of Tao believe that during this month, the Gates of Hell? opened and the spirits of the dead walk the earth freely. The best place to see how this traditional ritual carried out in Singapore is at the center of residential areas, where fellow believers gathered to burn incense and present their offerings in the form of prayers, fruits such as Mandarin oranges, small foods such as roast pork, a bowl of rice and sometimes Local Chinese cake made especially for this ceremony. Not infrequently there are tents in the open space that opened during this period, because the Chinese are also believed to comfort the spirits with performances and puppet getai directly, which not only describes the story of gods and goddesses, but also the local comedy, song and dance in various Chinese dialects and even a sensual acrobatic pole dance performed by dancers dressed in spandex fabric is supple and agile.
Phi Ta Khon Festival in Thailand
Not scary ghost forever. In Thailand, citizens of the City And Sai is located approximately 520 kilometers northeast of Bangkok, annually hold a named Phi Ta Khon festival is held specifically for the ghosts in the country. Uniquely, the implementation of the festivals that are often held in June this determined spirit that sends the message through an astrologer.
This legend began when Prince Thailand Vessandra is also the incarnation of Buddha is back after a long journey. Celebration to welcome the prince was very lively up to attract the ghosts of Thailand. Well, since that's when celebrations that followed the country's ghost is often held each year.
Thai-style ghost festival does have similarities with the tradition of Halloween in the United States. Each year, residents flooded the festival site by wearing various masks and costumes ghosts. Usually, the festival participants will then be paraded in the streets while dancing and scare the audience. In addition, they also carry a large wooden sword as a symbol of fertility. Because the festival is also intended as an effort to summon rain.
Obon Traditions in Japan
Obon is one of the traditions of Japanese society. Obon is taken from Buddhism, meaning welcome the spirits of deceased family. They believe that around the summer of the spirits visit the earth, therefore it should be welcome. Obon conducted annually by the Japanese masyarakt generally on the 15th of August to coincide with the summer (Natsu yasumi) in celebration of Obon Japanese food offered at the altar ashes of deceased family, as a sign welcoming spirit, then they do the prayer together .
Besides the usual rituals done is called Obon Odori dance at night. They believe that while doing the dance of the spirit was rejoiced to dance together.
There are also areas in Japan that have a tradition of celebration of Obon lanterns hang with the intention that ancestral spirits can find a house that had once lived.
Festival Cap Go Meh in Indonesia
Cap Goh Meh celebration in Singkawang usually marked with a procession to the temple or pagoda Tatung. Celebrations believed to have carried from generation to generation since 200 years ago. The Tatung derived from various monasteries scattered throughout Singkawang, therefore it would not be surprised if Singkawang also earned the nickname of the city of thousand temples. In a monastery or pagoda sometimes consist of more than 1 person Tatung. Morning on day 15, the Tatung will gather to pray to the sky on the altar that had been prepared. Tatung's journey in a litter by using litter that lined a sharp sword or a sharp nail, while showing off her body immunity. There is also an upstairs sword, usually consisting of 36 or 72 shoulder / stairs. Increasingly able to rise to the top then that is the stronger also the science of Tatung. This activity has started to be developed as a tourist attraction to attract domestic and foreign tourists.
Ghost Festival in Vietnam
In Vietnam, this is called Vu Lan festival. Each family prepares a paper clothes, paper money, tasteless porridge, wheat, rice and salt, then put the incense outside the gate to feed the hungry demons who have no home.
Throughout the month of ghosts in Vietnam, each family chose a specific day to prepare offerings and invite spirits to eat. What's interesting is after the incense burned, the children can take food.
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