Keelung Taiwan's Ghost Month ( Chinese 7th Month Hungry Ghost Festival)

In Taiwan, this 7th month of the Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival is known as Ghost Month


At Taiwan’s northern harbor of Keelung, paper-made boats known as water lanterns were burned to celebrate the hungry ghost festival.

According to Chinese tradition, during ghost month, the door of the underworld opens and gives ghosts the chance to wander under the sun again once each year.

Worshippers brought offerings to the shore on Monday evening for those who perished at sea.

Fifteen families in Keelung presented water lanterns shaped like paper houseboats in a parade on the streets, before igniting and releasing them into the water.