Chung Yüan
Chung Yüan. Chinese festival (predominantly Buddhist), held to assist the hungry ghosts. It is held on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, and from this day until the end of the month offerings are made, or gifts contributed, which will assist those who have died with none otherwise to remember them, those without graves, and those without descendants.
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