Beware — 'Gate of Hell' opens this Wednesday
MIRI: In two days – the 15th day of the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar – the ‘Gate of Hell’ will open, letting all the ‘hungry souls’ out into the earthly realm.
Believers will light up their joss sticks, burn ‘hell notes’, and offer food to these hungry ghosts.
“Although this tradition has been passed down from our ancestors, there seems to be a trend among the people, especially the young ones, to confuse it with other
Chinese festivals,” DTK Trading Sdn Bhd proprietress Wendy Tan told The Borneo Post recently.
“The main focus of Hungry Ghost Festival, or ‘Zhong Yuan Jie’, is to offer food and other items to those souls who are not worshipped by their loved ones.”
She said since the first day of the seventh lunar month, the ghosts had already been wandering the earth.
