Hungry Ghost Festival or Chinese 7th month

Tweet

have not seen any post or discussion about it, so would do a little discussion about it. In the chinese custom, there is a month in the lunar calendar (usually is later than the calendar we are using now by a month eg august would usually be then chinese 7th month), where we say that the gates of hell would be opened allowing the people that are suffering in hell to allow them to "eat", reason being is that the people that are suffering there are not allowed the eat for the whole year till the next 7th month. In this month, there would be lots of people in Singapore would have offerings and burned paper money to give them asking them to "bless" them to have a good year. But in the Buddhist way, we says that in this month is a month where the master eg monks would not ask for alms for this month as they are meditating and study the ways of buddhism a rule made by buddha himself. therefore descendants would give offering to the master and ask them to help the the deceased to pray and hope that they would have a better afterlife or rebirth. but regarding of that story to why this rule was made by Buddha, probably would have to make another discussion about it. Anyway after listening to the 2 different kind of saying which version have you heard before?? and just for your information, this month is the chinese 7th month.