Under the silvery glow of the waning moon, Ellie leaned against the wooden railing of her grandmother’s dilapidated, old house, nestled amid whispering pines. Each gust of autumn wind that echoed around her caused an unsettling chill to crawl up her spine. The communities surrounding them spoke of late-night wanderings and occurrences every seventh month on the lunar calendar—the infamous month of hungry ghosts. This year, it was particularly ominous, with the Father’s love leaving them early in the spring. The Hungry Ghost Festival was imminent, a time tinged with both reverence and dread, and she had vowed to honor her roots.
Ellie’s grandmother, a beacon of wisdom infused with ancient traditions, insisted on resuming this age-old practice. “On the fifteenth day of the seventh month,” her grandmother repeated, her voice getting crackly, aged like the house itself, “our ancestors ease their hunger.” And the thought haunted Ellie, enhancing her apprehension. The gruesome yet poignant legends echo in the grand tales passed through generations in her family. This September marked the legends wrapped around her lineage, and the parallels with her present lingered like unwelcome shadows.
Coming to life that fateful night, Ellie laid out the customary three courses of food: sweet glutinous rice, succulent chicken—a slide of papery duck standing testament to what they had honored in the feast—but all decorated with tempting incense that danced erratically against the haunting whispers of the place. As she prepared the offerings, strange shapes flickered through her peripheral vision on nights adorned with lanterns, flashing intimately brilliant images of family expectations and hushed promises wrapped in paper birth tokens.
The rituals demanded focus and persistence. She painstakingly arranged seven pairs of chopsticks on the ornate dining table and ensured that invisible eyes peered on from the ancestral tablets, as they demanded sobering silence while conducting joss sticks—burnt to ashes along the ledger between the divine ratios of life and hauntingly unsparing death. Her grandmother would come to guide, and Ellie intended to follow, emboldened by the promise that these glowing lanterns of offerings were essential guides for wayward souls ignored during the reign of “hunger”.
As dusk settled into profound darkness, prayerful murmurs drifted in the air alongside the mingling of industry standards in the garden out back. The intricacies of ancestral respect resonated, defining customs, scaring wanderers—strangers doomed to eve unescapables riding the currents of abandoned dreams. Never venturing further than their unknown elements.
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Ellie briskly positioned the lanterns afloat three paces from the still water shimmering nearly motionless; a venture to summon wandering spirits brimming with yearning. Almost mimicking fish, the flickering rays splashed waves and called upon ancestral company. The curtain between the worlds dimmed, and inexplicable sounds curled through the rife silence like tales sewn careful into folklore fabrications.
A mournful whistle wafted through the grain-laden serenade as she buried her feet into the cool damp earth. “C’mon, one should flash reply,” a husky voice tested control as if to provoke a notion from shadows, making her manage a stabbing wince that ricocheted into the dusky murk. Cautiously, she veered to investigate, terror clutching nightly specters curved toward hidden realms. Nothing but darkness curled—a shroud everywhere, holding cobweb entropy of silk hidden millennia deep. Clinging tightly, feeling the century-old wooden walls beckon in frustration—it warned.
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References:
Hungry Ghost Festival | Britannica – link
The Hungry Ghost Festival in Chinese Culture | ChineseClass101 – link
Hungry Ghost Festival – China Highlights – link
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