While the prosperity of the boom years has gradually petered out, the festival on the last day of "ghost month" (the seventh month in the lunar calendar) still creates great hubbub once a year, when thousands of tourists flood into Toucheng to watch the traditional qiangku tower-climbing competitions.
昔日的繁華已隨時間遠逝，倒是今年農曆七月三十「鬼門關」，大概是近年頭城最熱鬧的一日，成千上萬的觀光客湧入頭城，為的是一睹中元普渡好兄弟「搶孤」的真面目。