What are the traditional festivals in the seventh month of the lunar calendar?

The Mid-Yuan Festival is a day to go home to sweep the graves and honor your ancestors.

In Taiwan, the Mid-Yuan Festival is more lively than the New Year, and is celebrated with great pomp and circumstance throughout the seventh month of the lunar calendar. At this time of the year, a table of offerings is set up in front of the doors of businesses and households on the streets and alleys, with pastries, fruits and paper money. Taiwanese folklore has it that the ghostly gates of hell will open in the early hours of the first day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year, giving the deceased a chance to visit their descendants in the afterlife.

Hong Kong's 2017 Yu Lan Cultural Festival, the city's biggest event celebrating the Mid-Yuan Festival, ended not long ago at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay. According to records, there are about 1.2 million Chiu Chow people in Hong Kong, and as they migrated to Hong Kong from the mainland, the tradition of various communities organizing Yu Lan Sheng Hui in the seventh month of the lunar calendar has continued for a hundred years.In 2015, Hong Kong began to hold the Yu Lan Cultural Festival.