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Hungry Ghost 7th Lunar Month Festival, Sophia Road, Singapore.
Fujifilm X-E1 + Fujinon 35mm. ƒ/1.4. iso3200. Cropped.
Hungry Ghosts night. Wilkie Road/Sophia Road, Singapore.
Fujifilm X-E1 + Fujinon 35mm. Multiexposure mode. N(atura)H film simulation. ƒ/1.4. iso1600. No alteration.
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KTV staff celebrating Hungry Ghost Festival @ Selegie road, Singapore. Fujifilm X-E1 + Fujinon 35mm. N(atura)H film simulation. ƒ/1.4. iso1600. No alteration.
Hungry Ghost Festival falls on the 7th month of the lunar New Year and is celebrated mainly in China and other countries such as Singapore & Malaysia. It is believe that during this month, the gates of hell are opened to free the hungry ghosts who then wander to seek food on Earth. Chinese celebrate this festival chiefly to remember their deceased family members and pay tribute to them. They also feel that offering food to the deceased appeases them and wards off bad luck.
Chinese also believe that the dead return to visit their living relatives during the 7th month and so they prepare a sumptuous meal for the ‘hungry ghosts’, just as they would for normal Chinese gatherings at festivals. They also offer prayers to the deceased relatives and burn joss sticks.
In Malaysia and Singapore, there are also concerts (getai or wayang) performed on outdoor stages in some neighborhoods at night. These concerts used to be traditional Chinese (different dialects) operas and (Teochews and Hokkien) puppet shows; however nowadays such traditional performances are very rare- they are replaced by pop music. There is a belief that this entertainment would please those wandering ghosts.
This photo is a rare Hokkien puppet show.
During the Ghost Month
(Aug 7 and will last until Sept 4.) the gates of Hell are opened, releasing ghosts, and spirits including those of the dead with permits to roam the living world.
For the local Chinese who believe in this, the festival has always been held to pay respects to the dead, and to seek protection and good luck from the ‘Tai Su Yah‘ (King of Hades)- the ruler of the underworld.
Long hours of prayers beginning early each day through late at night for almost a month are conducted in an intense manner with massive offerings of food offered up to Tai Su Yeah.
Huge quantities of joss papers are also offered to Tai Su Yeah, as well as roasted pigs, goats, chicken, ducks and traditional Chinese cakes miku, moho, gem biscuits, fruits and flowers.
The intensity of the practice stunned me. Never have I seen so many people offering up prayers to any deity as this before..and this being the King of Hades.
Protection and favour seems to be the main purpose in all I witnessed.
More surprising was the presence of the young - I'd expected to see the seniors as the majority, but no; it was mostly attended by those below 30; teens and kids included...
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From series James G. Mundie's Cabinet of Curiosities
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As punishment for a life filled with gluttony, the Hungry Ghost is always ravenous, but can never fit food down its thin neck.
(before being invited to join) Hungry Ghost 7th Lunar Month Festival, Sophia Road, Singapore.
Fujifilm X-E1 + Fujinon 35mm. ƒ/1.4. iso3200. Cropped.
Cool stuff in the mail today, this has obviously been out for a while, but I hadn’t seen the vinyl LP until today, looks awesome, that’s my photo of Violent Soho at The Zoo nice and huge in the gatefold, hooray!
I’ve been shooting these guys since 2007, we did a photo shoot in the 4122 for a Timeoff cover in July 2008, and then I shot the launch of We Don’t Belong Here at The Troubadour that night www.flickr.com/photos/sbphoto/sets/72157606600467358
Violent Soho are a great band and an excellent group of people, in it for all the right reasons, and they’ve really earned the success that’s coming their way, Hungry Ghost just went gold, and a huge summer tour is planned. Seeing them play to 10,000+ people at Splendour this year was one of those moments that make you think that at least some things are as they should be in this weird world, talent, hard work, personality, integrity, great songs, fat choruses, loud guitars and huge drums still have the power to elevate people, and the kids still dig the rock and roll. Cheers Violent Soho, rock on \m/
During the Ghost Month
(Aug 7 and will last until Sept 4.) the gates of Hell are opened, releasing ghosts, and spirits including those of the dead with permits to roam the living world.
For the local Chinese who believe in this, the festival has always been held to pay respects to the dead, and to seek protection and good luck from the ‘Tai Su Yah‘ (King of Hades)- the ruler of the underworld.
Long hours of prayers beginning early each day through late at night for almost a month are conducted in an intense manner with massive offerings of food offered up to Tai Su Yeah.
Huge quantities of joss papers are also offered to Tai Su Yeah, as well as roasted pigs, goats, chicken, ducks and traditional Chinese cakes miku, moho, gem biscuits, fruits and flowers.
The intensity of the practice stunned me. Never have I seen so many people offering up prayers to any deity as this before..and this being the King of Hades.
Protection and favour seems to be the main purpose in all I witnessed.
More surprising was the presence of the young - I'd expected to see the seniors as the majority, but no; it was mostly attended by those below 30; teens and kids included...
Sophia Road, Singapore. Fujifilm X-E1 + Fujinon 35mm. Multiexposure mode. ƒ/1.4. iso1600. No alteration.
The "Hungry Ghost," originally the "Preta," comes from Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, and Jain texts, though most of its tradition is Chinese in origin, and most modern cultural references are from the Japanese "Gaki."
A Hungry Ghost is karmic in nature - if you are a glutton, you will be reincarnated as one of these creatures. An insatiably ravenous creature, it is incapable of actually eating anything, as its throat is too narrow to swallow. OR... it can eat whatever it wants, but it only craves human flesh. Could be either!
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During the Ghost Month
(Aug 7 and will last until Sept 4.) the gates of Hell are opened, releasing ghosts, and spirits including those of the dead with permits to roam the living world.
For the local Chinese who believe in this, the festival has always been held to pay respects to the dead, and to seek protection and good luck from the ‘Tai Su Yah‘ (King of Hades)- the ruler of the underworld.
Long hours of prayers beginning early each day through late at night for almost a month are conducted in an intense manner with massive offerings of food offered up to Tai Su Yeah.
Huge quantities of joss papers are also offered to Tai Su Yeah, as well as roasted pigs, goats, chicken, ducks and traditional Chinese cakes miku, moho, gem biscuits, fruits and flowers.
The intensity of the practice stunned me. Never have I seen so many people offering up prayers to any deity as this before..and this being the King of Hades.
Protection and favour seems to be the main purpose in all I witnessed.
More surprising was the presence of the young - I'd expected to see the seniors as the majority, but no; it was mostly attended by those below 30; teens and kids included...
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Hungry Ghosts Festival (7th Lunar Month), Selegie Road, Singapore.
Fujifilm X-E1 + Fujinon 35mm. Multiexposure mode. N(atura)H film simulation. ƒ/1.4. iso1600. No alteration.
Sometimes even I find it hard to look at the images I take, but it is all part of the human condition and the urge to document what I see around me takes me over. Maybe it is the Buddhist in me and the fact that I see the world in many ways as world of suffering, 'Saha' world
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and wish to find beauty and meaning even in these sort of images.
This is an old Gent who frequents Brixton Market in London just wandering around all day. In many ways I find him to be the embodiment of a 'hungary Ghost' from the Tibetan 'wheel of life' as he just keeps wandering asking for things and is never really satisfied
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhavacakra
which contains the text below
Hungry ghost realm: hungry ghosts suffer from extreme hunger and thirst. They wander constantly in search of food and drink, only to be miserably frustrated any time them come close to actually getting what they want. For example, they see a stream of pure, clear water in the distance, but by the time the get there the stream has dried up. Hungry ghosts have huge bellies and long thin necks. On the rare occasions that they do manage to find something to eat or drink, the food or water burns their neck as it goes down to their belly, causing them intense agony.
During the Ghost Month
(Aug 7 and will last until Sept 4.) the gates of Hell are opened, releasing ghosts, and spirits including those of the dead with permits to roam the living world.
For the local Chinese who believe in this, the festival has always been held to pay respects to the dead, and to seek protection and good luck from the ‘Tai Su Yah‘ (King of Hades)- the ruler of the underworld.
Long hours of prayers beginning early each day through late at night for almost a month are conducted in an intense manner with massive offerings of food offered up to Tai Su Yeah.
Huge quantities of joss papers are also offered to Tai Su Yeah, as well as roasted pigs, goats, chicken, ducks and traditional Chinese cakes miku, moho, gem biscuits, fruits and flowers.
The intensity of the practice stunned me. Never have I seen so many people offering up prayers to any deity as this before..and this being the King of Hades.
Protection and favour seems to be the main purpose in all I witnessed.
More surprising was the presence of the young - I'd expected to see the seniors as the majority, but no; it was mostly attended by those below 30; teens and kids included...
btw..this effigy will be burnt in the climax of the festival.