Oopz - 7th Month

Wah suddenly 2 days I didn't blog! I thought I did ok? ok! I thought ish!
But anyhow nothing much really but today marks the first day of the 7th lunar month in accordance to the chinese calender and below is an exert from Wikipedia.org:

In Chinese tradition, the seventh month in the Chinese calendar is called the Ghost Month (鬼月), in which ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower world to visit earth. The Ghost Festival is the climax of a series of the Ghost Month celebrations. Traditionally, ancestor worshiping was an important part of the festivals, with activities including preparing ritualistic offering food, and burning hell money and bags containing cloth to please the visiting ghosts and spirits of the ancestors, as well as other deities. Other activities include, burying and releasing miniature paper boats and lanterns on water, which signifies "giving directions to the lost ghosts and spirits of the ancestors and other deities." A very solemn festival of ancestor worshiping, the festival nevertheless represents a connection between the ancestors and the descendants, the living and the dead, earth and heaven, as well as body and soul.

The Ghost Festival shares some similarities with the predominantly Mexican observance of El Día de los Muertos. Due to theme of ghosts and spirits, the festival is sometimes also known as the Chinese Halloween, though many have debated the difference between the two.

From a book, "The boy who speaks to ghosts" by Benny Wong, 7th month was started from an emperor...oops i forgot the name but the emperor was visited by a spirit that told him to offer some offerings to spirits and in accordance to that he wore a white robe and stick out his tongue and those who was visited by him will be given a lump of mud/soil which will turn into gold... I think those is correct if my memory serves me right

and so there is a lot to this festival you see but this post seems to be long enough so will talk more about it tomorrow.