2008年10月20日 星期一

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1.出處 http://www.youthtravel.tw/youthtravel/docDetail/doc.jsp?doc=US_0000000263&cate=A000087
行政院青輔會青年旅遊網

2.reason:It tell about what is the Ghost Month Festival and some of the ghost history. Everyone think that July is a ghost month. The article describes how we can do on this month and what it symbolize! Maybe the artic le can help you understand more about the ghost month festival.

Ghost Month Festival

內 容
Keelung’s Zhongyuan Pudu Rites, Miaokou Nightmarket Rambles, and Sacrificial CeremoniesNo sinful deeds done in the day, no ghosts knocking on your door at night.“Prowl the dark streets at night, beware the visit of a ghostly fright.” These are familiar proverbs for people of Chinese descent. The idea of hard to see, impossible to touch bodies of ghosts fills adult and child alike with dread. The standard Chinese ghost has long hair, green face, a long white robe, and has its long tongue stuck out. They float aimlessly about, literally, in the mortal world, are nothing like the often cute ghosts of the West, who sometimes even reach out a ghostly hand to help the living. East or West, however, sometimes Cupid brings human and ghost together in love. Think of “Ghost,” with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, and in the East there was “A Chinese Ghost Story,” starring Leslie Cheung and Joey Wang. Both are deeply moving, though most mortals may shy away from actually falling in love with a ghost. Love talk with a ghost—certainly a queer, devilish idea. In Taiwan’s Ghost Month kindness and compassion is shown to these unseen ghostly apparitions, providing succor to the souls of ancestors and to forgotten souls. Incense, prayer, and sacrificial food/drink is offered and the safety and peace of following generations is beseeched, with the dual worlds of yin and yang living in peace with each other. The city of Keelung’s particular history of immigrant turmoil has led to the island’s grandest events during the Zhongyuan festival, also referred to as Ghost Month. The “Releasing of the Water Lanterns” is romantic and moving. The “Snatching the Flag” competition is wildly boisterous. The “Dance of Zhong Kui” the demon-catcher is exciting and a bit sinister. These make of Ghost Month a fantasia of excitement, and exposure to Taiwan’s deep wellspring of folk customs. And whether English-speaking, French, or any other language, the language of the worship and prayer seen here is universal—as long as your heart is sincere, your prayers will be answered. After all the boisterous activity, head to famed Miaokou Nightmarket to reenergize your spirits with tempura, oyster omelets, and the many other finger-licking-good local delicacies.

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