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The Ghost Festival or Hungry Ghost Festival, also known as the Zhongyuan Festival in Taoism and the Yulanpen Festival in Buddhism, is a traditional festival held in certain East and Southeast Asian countries. According to the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar, the Ghost Festival is on the 15th night of the seventh month (14th in parts of southern…
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The extracted context around Ghost Festival shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Ghost Festival → Abingdon, Academic Year, Advance Buddhology, Annual Report, Apocryphal Scriptures, Bandō, Berkeley, Buddhist Rituals, Buddhist Translation, Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai English, Cambridge, Chinese, Chinese Literature, Chow, Chung Hwa Books, Contemporary Sri Lankan Practice, CS1, Death, Dharma, February Another extracted example is Ghost Festival → Aberdeen Street, Buddhist Festivals, Dan, Dead, Death Ritual Project Images, Ghost CultureHong Kong University, Han Zhang, History Project, Hong Kong, Hong KongWaters, Hungry Ghost Festival, Ingmar Heise, INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGEZhongyuan FestivalChinese, Journal, Kong Branch, Library Digital Archives Oral, PDF, Royal Asiatic Society Hong, Southeast China, The Bristol University Buddhist. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 171 structured relationships around Ghost Festival. Examples in this analysis include Ghost Festival → 2025 date → 6 September and Ghost Festival → 2026 date → 27 August. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghost Festival | 2025 date | 6 September | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ghost Festival | 2026 date | 27 August | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ghost Festival | 2027 date | 16 August | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ghost Festival | 2028 date | 3 September | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ghost Festival | Also called | Spirit Festival | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ghost Festival | Date | 15th day of the 7th Chinese lunisolar month | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ghost Festival | Observances | Ancestor worship, offering food, burning joss paper, chanting of scriptures | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ghost Festival | Observed by | Buddhists Confucianists Taoists | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ghost Festival | Official name | Zhongyuan Festival (Taoism) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ghost Festival | Official name | Yulanpen Festival (Buddhism) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ghost Festival | Related to | Obon (in Japan) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ghost Festival | Related to | Baekjung (in Korea) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ghost Festival | Related to | Vu Lan (in Vietnam) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ghost Festival | Related to | Pchum Ben (observed by Khmer people) and Sen Kbal tek, សែនក្បាលទឹក (observed by Chinese-Cambodians) (in Cambodia) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ghost Festival | Related to | Boun Khao Padap Din (in Laos) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ghost Festival | Related to | Mataka dānēs (in Sri Lanka) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ghost Festival | Related to | Sat Thai (in Thailand) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ghost Festival | Significance | To commemorate the opening of the gates of Hell and Heaven, and spiritual realm permitting all spirits and souls to receive sustenance, money, and other offerings. | 1.00 | infobox |
The concept neighborhoods around Ghost Festival bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Ghost, Month and Hungry. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Ghost Festival, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Ghost Festival with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Ghost Festival to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Art, Regions & Standards, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Ghost Festival · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout