Is it Halloween in Tomb-Sweeping Day? Have all the ghosts been released?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is not Halloween. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a festival to sacrifice ancestors and the dead, and it is a festival with filial piety and commemorative significance.

According to Buddhist scriptures, there are six places where people are reincarnated after death, which are called "the six divisions in the wheel of karma"-heaven, man, Asura, beast, ghost and hell. Ghosts are just one of them, so paying homage to the dead is not a ghost festival. Because many people who do good deeds before their death will be reincarnated into three good ways: Heaven and Man, Asura and the world.

People call July 15 every year "Ghost Festival", because it is recorded in the Koran that the Buddha and arhat turned hungry ghosts on this day. Moreover, on July 15 every year, temples all over the country will hold Buddhist ceremonies to turn over for the hungry ghosts.