Indonesians Celebrate Hungry Ghost Festival

SURABAYA, INDONESIA - AUGUST 22: Food offerings are prepared during Hungry Ghost festival at Hong Tiek Hian Temple on August 22, 2021 in Surabaya, Indonesia. The Hungry Ghost Festival, widely known as Zhong Yuan Jie among Taoists and Buddhists respectively, is celebrated on the 15th day of the Ghost's Month, in the seventh lunar month of the lunar new year calendar among Chinese people in southern China, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, marks the belief that the Gates of Hell are opened to let out the hungry ghosts who then wander in the land of the living while foraging food. Food offerings are made while paper money and incense sticks are burnt outside homes to keep the spirits of dead ancestors happy and bring fortune and prosperity. (Photo by Robertus Pudyanto/Getty Images)