Hungry Ghost Festival 2025. Temples will host praying ceremonies along with food offerings, and burning fake paper money/joss paper, and incense. The ghost festival or hungry ghost festival, also known as the zhongyuan festival in taoism and the yulanpen festival in buddhism, is a traditional festival held in certain east and southeast asian countries.

Restless spirits return to earth during the traditional hungry ghost festival. Zhongyuan festival, also known as ghost festival or yu lan pen festival, falls on the 15th day of the 7th lunar month and it is dominated by the customs like worshipping ancestors, floating river lanterns, and burning paper ingots.