Polymythcal
Confirmed
Zhongyuan Festival / 中元節
- Date
- Place
- Taiwan and diaspora observance; local practice variesTaipei
- Status
- Confirmed
- Original listing language
- English
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Seventh lunar month, day 15; ancestor and ghost-related observances coordinate offerings, communal memory, and boundaries between households, communities, and the dead. Polymythcal separates the tradition's date rule and practices from its own socio-structural analysis.
Context and evidence
- Entry family
- ritual
- Calendar systems
- Chinese lunisolar calendar; Taiwan civil calendar
- Traditions
- Taiwanese; Han Chinese
- Social functions
- family aggregation; collective memory; ritual synchronization; intergenerational transmission
- Social context
- Seventh lunar month, day 15; ancestor and ghost-related observances coordinate offerings, communal memory, and boundaries between households, communities, and the dead.