To celebrate the Keelung Ghost Festival, many public buildings, plazas, and temples in downtown Keelung and the iconic Main Altar (主普壇) at Keelung Zhong Zheng Park are charmingly decorated with beautiful art installations from the first day to the end of the seventh lunar month.
Every year when the seventh lunar month comes, the residents of Keelung City, a tiny port city in northern Taiwan, are always busy observing the Keelung Ghost Festival, also known as the Keelung Mid-Summer Ghost Festival or the Keelung Zhongyuan Festival (雞寵中元祭). Designated as one of the 12 major festivals by the Taiwan Tourism Bureau, and ...
Not only is the Keelung Ghost Festival (雞籠中元祭), also known as the Keelung Chung Yuan Festival (基隆中元節), an important festive event for those who live in northern Taiwan’s Keelung City, but it is also the first festival to be designated a part of Taiwan’s intangible cultural heritage by the Taiwanese government and is one of 12 ...
The Ghost Festival is celebrated in the seventh lunar month, which falls between August 22 and September 19 this year, is a very important month for people living in Taiwan because it is the so-called “Ghost Month.” Legend has it that the gates of hell are opened on the first day of the lunar month ...
© 2024 nspirement. All rights reserved
