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The Hungry Ghost festival continues to be celebrated in China on the fifteenth night of the seventh month, when it is thought that the dead can cross over into the land of the living because the veil that separates the two worlds is thinnest.
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Bijou, M. (2014, October 30). Ghost Festival, China. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/3212/ghost-festival-china/
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