What is Hungry Ghost festival?

Why is it only the Chinese ghosts are hungry during the Hungry Ghost Festival?

• Do the other ghosts from other races eat better in the afterlife? DSM? What say you? discuss,

• Answer:

  Actually we chinese neber call Hungry Ghost Festivals this is just the English naame to the Festival only in but in cantonese we call it at different way , ,actually the ghost are not that hungry ,according to Chinese taoist beliefe,during this 30 days they are allowed to roam the earth ,may be they came back to visit their beloved descandant, so we Chinese see this so pitiful we offer some prayers chamting mantra to alleviate their bad karma and offer some food,candles joss stick and burning some joss paper for them in hope that they can receiveand have a better life in the underworld . other races of ghost they believe in different religion and practise different culture ,like the Western Ghost they have halowen days, in the underworld there is a big and powerful we call it as King of Hades he treat different races and different religion differently .dont forget ar it is not the ghost who are hungry arr,just the name only ,it means they can roam the earth freely during this festival start