Only Hsinchu, with its Festival of the Righteous, and the Hakka communities, with their local sacrifices, still observe a similar ceremony to deliver souls from their suffering on the fifteenth day of Ghost Month.
全省的中元普渡活動，除了客家人地區性的大拜拜之外，至今仍保留「普渡」儀典的，一為新竹地區的義民節，另一個就是基隆地區的「主普壇」。