What is the festival of Pudu also known as?

Pudu Festival is called Ghost Festival.

"Pudu" is a folk cultural phenomenon in southern Fujian, it is the combination of the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the Taoist festival of the middle and the Buddhist Bon and the formation of folk festivals. Southern Fujian's largest Pudu, the first Shishi's "Turtle Lake Dapu", that is, the turtle lake of 13 villages belonging to the 12 Chinese zodiac (which after the An and Lun after the monkey).

12 years each rotating Pudu once, each other feast, the folk have "famous Turtle Lake Pudu" of the proverb. More precisely to - "Pudu" is generally from the first day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar to the period of the thirtieth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, each village has a specific belongs to their own "Pudu" days, not a few years to round Instead, each village has a fixed time each year for the Pudu feast.

Extended information:

The object of Pudu's worship is the "Pudu Gong. Pudu Gong", which is a kind of existence with no specific legend, image or idol. The answer to the question, "What does he look like and where does he usually go?" is "I don't know what he looks like, but he's everywhere," "Maybe one, maybe many," and "He's a lonely spirit, he's a ghost. "He is the head of the lonely souls and wild spirits, the one who manages the lonely souls and wild spirits", "He is the lonely souls and wild spirits, and there are many of them who have had their heads killed, and they are very hungry in hell" and so on.

Seldom see the written information about Pudu Gong, did not hear what Pudu Gong legend circulated, and did not hear of anyone who did not do Pudu Gong what punishment, but people are very afraid of what trouble it will bring to their own homes. The seriousness with which Pudu was performed, the fact that neighbors were invited to perform the rituals at the same time, and the fact that the "gold" was burned in the open air and burned completely, showed that Pudu Gong was a threatening presence to the people.

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