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Feeding the hungry ghosts: The Festival of Hungry Ghosts occurs on the 15th day of the seventh moon, and is the closest Chinese equivalent to the Christian's All Souls Day.
Taoists and other Chinese religious sects(as well as superstitious people from the Chiu Chow region of Kwangtung Provience) take this festival seriously and actively participate in it. Depending on individual preference, donation from the human world may or may not benefits the ghosts; however, in the human world one group that benefit greatly from this holiday are paper-mache craftsmen. They fashion complete wardrobes, cars, airplanes,furniture, money and other necessities of life, out of paper, and these folk art forms are burned as offerings during the Festival of Hungry Ghosts. The act of offerings gifts to the ghosts by burning such paper replicas generally takes place on the pavements and is quiet a colourful scene.