Notes on China in motion — timely essays where travel, media, the calendar and everyday life open doors into a larger story.
Today is the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. Zhongyuan welcomes ancestors and wandering spirits with food, light and ritual care.
The essay uses Halloween as a familiar doorway, then explains why China’s Ghost Festival is less about fright than memory, hospitality and obligation.
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