The seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar is popularly known as "Ghost Month." At temples and other sites of Buddhist and Taoist rituals, both on dry land and on water, rites are held to relieve the suffering of souls in the next world.
農曆七月教孝月，又稱鬼月，是各家道場廣開水陸法會、超渡靈界眾生的時節。