On the final night of that month, before the passageway closes, the qianggu festival, devoted to the salvation of lost souls, takes place in Toucheng. Here, at the northern tip of Ilan County, throngs of men and ghosts rub shoulders at the carnivalesque scene of the qianggu, an occasion that offers these vagabond souls a good meal before they return in contentment to their shadowy abode.
而在鬼門關閉的前一夜，「開蘭第一城」──宜蘭頭城小鎮──人聲鼎沸、鬼影幢幢，共享一場冥陽同歡的「搶孤」嘉年華，讓「好兄弟」（孤魂野鬼）飽食佳餚後，心滿意足地回歸陰界。