Summer ends, The Fall begins (9/22)

Row, row, row your board gently on the plane/Merrily, merrily, merrily, life moves to the drain

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Can non-Indians enjoy it, too?

Seasons change, Anicca reigns; it is the way of Samsara. That will be our new saying. What does it mean? "Weather alters, impermanence in all things; that's how it goes in this incessant Cycle." But at least on the Island of California, it's not so bad. We get a reprieve before fall starts in earnest. And it's called "Indian summer." Berkeley, one of the greatest places on the planet, got hit by an earthquake to wake everyone up and keep them agitating for positive change. We know things are changing because Christmas Tree Lane lights are going up in post-Eaton Fire Altadena, a Los Angeles custom.

Berkeley gets a wakeup call

Indian summer

Native Americans enter a Quaker Friends meeting and find them quite nice and peaceful.

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Beware of anicca (constant flux)

An Indian summer is a period of unseasonably warm and dry weather that sometimes occurs in autumn in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Several sources describe a true Indian summer as not occurring until after the first frost, or more specifically the first "killing frost" [1][2][3].

• Seasons change with the solstices and equinoxes

Etymology (origin)

One last time to the beach before it's too late?

The late 19th-century lexicographer Albert Matthews made an exhaustive search of early American literature in an attempt to discover who coined the expression [4]. The earliest reference he found dated to 1851. He also found the phrase in a letter written in England in 1778 but discounted that as a coincidental use of the phrase.

Later research showed that the earliest known reference to "Indian summer" in its current sense occurs in an essay written in the United States around 1778 by J. Hector St. John de Crevecœur, describing the character of autumn and implying the common usage of the expression:

• Great rains at last replenish the springs, the brooks, the swamp and impregnate the earth. Then a severe frost succeeds which prepares it to receive the voluminous coat of snow which is soon to follow; though it is often preceded by a short interval of smoke and mildness, called the Indian Summer. This is in general the invariable rule: winter is not said properly to begin until those few moderate days & the raising of the water has announced it to Man.

The essay was first published in French around 1788 and remained unavailable in the United States until the 1920s [5].

Although the exact origins of the term are uncertain [6], it was perhaps so-called

• because it was first noted in regions inhabited by Native Americans,
• or because the natives first described it to Europeans [7],
• or it had been based on the warm and hazy conditions in autumn when Native Americans hunted [6].

Buddhist Wheel of Life: Impermanence

John James Audubon wrote about "The Indian Summer that extraordinary phenomenon of North America" in his journal on Nov. 20, 1820. He mentions the "constant Smoky atmosphere" and how the smoke irritates his eyes.

Audubon suspects that the condition of the air was caused by "Indians, firing the Prairies of the West." Audubon also mentions in many other places in his writings the reliance Native Americans had on fire. At no point does Audubon relate an Indian summer to warm temperatures during the cold seasons. More

• The Fall (2006 film)

What is The Fall?

(Like Stories of Old) The Fall, the most beautiful movie you've never seen: Roy tells Alexandria

Filmed in 24 countries

Fall, of course, is a season; every fall is heralded by the autumnal equinox. But The Fall is something else. We can look at fascists in the White House, the Department of War, the Senate, Congress, and police departments across the nation for that sort of toppling or the coming down of the things we all loved and cherished as our birthright under a Constitution.

So long, Cruel Cruel Summer!

But the present administration, like administrations before it on both sides of the aisle, doesn't seem to care about the writing of the Forefathers at the birth of the nation. One is reminded of Hamilton, now out in a three-hour extravaganza of rap, choreographed dancing, and dueling. What is a good example of a Fall that falls upon us like an Indian summer, maybe driving along happily and without a care along PCH. Then BAM! Crash. Eyes covered with a sheet. Coroner's office...more Samsara.

(Movie Monarch) Review of The Fall, one of the greatest films ever

• Jai Wolf, Indian Summer (giphy.com); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Ken Page, Nightmare Before Xmas, dies

People don't really die, do they? Do we?

(Todd Malkin) Ken Page (1954-2024) sings "Oogie Boogie," a song from A Nightmare Before Christmas live @ The Hollywood Bowl on Halloween 2015).

Page has died at 70, according to a close friend. He now faces rebirth, potentially among the unfortunate beings of the dismal hungry ghost realm for his habitual karma on earth. What did he do? He was an actor and singer, counterfeiting the truth on stage, which American Theravada Buddhist monk Ven. Thanissaro suggests is the kind of karma (deeds) that dooms one to miserable consequences.

• Right Livelihood: Acting and soldiering bad karma (accesstoinsight.org)

All is not lost. Such rebirths, however long lived, are impermanent and then one carries on according to one's just desserts. Of course, it is possible that he willed, carried out, and stored up merit and skillful deeds to counteract some or all of the deeds we saw. The working out of karma is imponderable, but general things may be said about it. May Ken Page be well and happy and celebrate skillful deeds done on his behalf by those who remain living on a plane where wholesome actions are possible (such as the human plane). 

• The Best Vegetarian Recipes of 2024 (MSN)

Why Trump LOST debate: witchcraft (lol)

I'm not a witch. My nose? That doesn't make me a witch! I'm a forewoman (MSNBC).

Maybe this witch did it. Or was it Taylor Swift?!

A weakling and a coward, that what Trump seems like post-debate. He's a weird beta male, and who's the Alpha?

Body language says it is now Queen Kamala, according to an expert brought in to discuss Trump's disastrous debate performance.

It was his 9/11. The expert made it clear that his body language said it all, as did hers.

(The Daily Show) Dogs, cats, loses and lies about it, Swift envy, spin

(Sky News Australia) Fact checking VP Kamala Harris for various "lies"

Makes sense! Trump lost because God was weak and a witch was strong

I knew I could win with the Craft.

A conservative, evangelical, pro-Trump preacher put his own dark magic spin on the right-wing accusation that ABC News — as the host network — rigged Tuesday’s presidential debate in favor of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, and against GOP nominee Donald Trump. “When I say ‘witchcraft’ I am talking about what happened tonight,” Christian Pastor Lance Wallnau wrote Wednesday on X (Twitter). “Occult empowered deception, manipulation and domination. That’s what ABC pulled off as moderators, and Kamala’s script handlers set up the kill box,” the pastor continued.

But God rules everything.

“It’s not over yet,” Pastor Wallnau claimed, appearing to refer to Trump’s campaign. “But something supernatural needs to disrupt this counterfeit momentum because the same public that voted in [former President Barack] Obama is voting again, and her deception is advancing,” he added. Christian pastor claims witchcraft to blame for Donald Trump's bad debate [and all the MAGA prayers failed him]

• TRUMP'S CURSE: Trump rips Neil Cavuto after Fox host said he ‘decisively lost’ debate
• Trump [scared of his failure] says there will be NO MORE DEBATES with Kamala, in [scared] social media rant
• Biden to vote for Trump? Wears MAGA hat on 9/11 [to ease the pain of his disastrous loss to VP Harris]
• Kamala Harris campaign TROLLS Trump on Truth Social with Fox News clip (Newsweek)
• MAGA pushes claim of 'ABC whistleblower' after Harris-Trump debate (Newsweek via MSN)
• Trump sees slight 2-point post-debate poll boost, campaign claims, whereas Harris gets... (Newsweek)
• Nate Silver's warning on Kamala Harris' big post-debate gains (MSN)
• AwakenWithJP (satire), 9/12/24; MSN.com, 9/12/24; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Satisfying downfall of hot SSSniperwolf

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How Mulian rescued his mother from hell

Crystal Quintero, CC Liu, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Mulian (Maha Moggallana) rescues his mother from her afterlife (wiki)

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To rescue mom from Realm of Hungry Ghosts

The Buddha's black disciple

This story is widespread. The Buddha's Black chief disciple Maudgalyāyana (Maha Moggallana) looked for his mother after her death.

In addition to being used to illustrate the principles of karma and rebirth [69, 70], in China the story developed a new emphasis:

In China Maudgalyāyana is known as "Mulian," and his story is taught in a mixture of religious instruction and entertainment to remind people of their duties to their deceased relatives [71, 72].

The earliest version of the story is the Sanskrit Ullambana Sutra [73]. The story is popular in China, Japan, and Korea, where it is told in the form of edifying folktales such as the Chinese bianwen (e.g., "The Transformation Text on Mu-lien Saving His Mother from the Dark Regions") [74, 75].

In most versions of the story, Maudgalyāyana uses his psychic powers to look for his deceased parents to see in where they were reborn.

Although he finds his father in a heaven (deva world), he cannot locate his mother and asks the Buddha for help.

What if we're reborn as shapeshifting ghosts?

The Buddha brings him to his mother, who is located in a hellish realm [usually it is the preta-loka or Realm of Hungry Ghosts], but Maudgalyāyana cannot help her.

The Buddha advises him to make merits on his mother's behalf, which helps her to be reborn in a better place [75, 76, 77].

In the version of the story in Laos, he travels to the world of Yama, the kind king of the dead and ruler of the underworld, only to find the world abandoned.

Yama tells Maudgalyāyana that he allows the denizens of the hell to go out of the gates of hell to be free for one day, that is, on the full moon day of the ninth lunar month.

On this day, the hellions can receive merit transferred and be liberated from hell, if such merit is transferred to them [78].

Son, is that FOOD for me?! Aww, it burned up.

In some other Chinese accounts, Maudgalyāyana finds his mother, reborn as a hungry ghost. When Maudgalyāyana tries to offer her food through an ancestral shrine, the food bursts into flames each time.

Maudgalyāyana therefore asks the Buddha for advice. He recommends him to make merit to the Noble Sangha (the community of enlightened disciples, which is the unsurpassable field of merit) and transfer that merit to his mother.

• While this may sound odd, fantastical, and preposterous -- opposed to the theory of karma (action, deed, intentional act) -- it is actually possible for others to "receive" the merit (meritorious deed, the wholesome action of body, speech, or mind) we perform. How? When we offer the merit, if the other person knows it and receives it and is grateful, then that good mental acts of theirs is what benefits them to the measure of what is offered. Karma is a strange thing and very complex, in fact, so complex that knowing HOW it is going to work itself out by its many results-and-fruits (vipaka and phala) is one of the Four Imponderables.

The transfer not only helps his mother to be reborn in heaven but can also be used to help seven generations of parents and ancestors [79, 80].

• Sadly, as regards this Buddhist transfer of merit, it is not a universal cure for those reborn in the downfall (niraya, the subhuman planes of existence). This is how we know that the mother of Maudgalyāyana (Maha Moggallana) had not fallen into a "hell" (naraka) but rather the less painful Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a kind of Hades/Sheol [an underworld or dimension of shadows right next to us but veiled so we do not see it] or place the ancient Greeks and Jews thought all beings were reborn after death regardless of their karma. The Buddha explained that there are not many places beings would be in a position to "receive" any merit one attempts to "transfer" to all of them. But one should still try. Why? Beings who have fallen into the Realm of Hungry Ghosts can receive merit. And even if the person one is sending the merit to is not in that world but in some worse place, that merit can still be received by one's relatives. Now the Buddha said two very interesting things. One, he defined "relative" or "ancestor" as going back seven generations. All of those beings are our relative eligible to receive merit we transfer. Two, there is no one who does not have a relative(s) in this realm because of the number of people encompassed by going back seven generations. They will benefit even if our target cannot, and we will certainly benefit by the doing of merit, more so for wanting to transfer it, whether or not a particular person receives it.

The offering was believed to be most effective when collectively done, which led to the arising of the ghost festival [81]. (See § Heritage).

Several scholars have pointed out the similarities between the accounts of Maudgalyāyana helping his mother and the account of Phra Malai, an influential legend in Thailand and Laos [82, 83].

Indeed, in some traditional accounts Phra Malai is compared to Maudgalyāyana [83].

On a similar note, Maudgalyāyana's account is also thought to have influenced the Central Asian Epic of King Gesar, Maudgalyāyana being a model for the king [84]. More

"Russell Brand is under attack" (TJDS)

Craig Jardula, Kurt Metzger (TJDS); Ashley Wells, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Russell Brand is under attack! 60 Minutes pushes for endless war! w/ Craig Jardula

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A honey pot baits, and the CIA blackmails.

Russell Brand got too close to the fire. Is he guilty of sexual misconduct? He might be. That's certainly possible. He never claimed to be an awakened saint.

Is it the most likely the reason he's being attacked? We'll reserve judgment, hoping these attacks and accusations are retribution for him stepping out of line and daring to speak truth to power.

His truth is not that deep, not that risky, but compared to most of the media, he's been extremely to the left. The whole world has been moved to the right.

One by one, they will be taken down (e.g., Lee Camp of Redacted Tonight) until there's no independent source of truth in reporting anything.

That seems to be the plan, as when the CIA took control of all the major media outlets in the country and bragged about it. Editors will police themselves or they won't get the job to be in a position to decide what merits readers' consideration. Remember that time Brand met and interviewed the Dalai Lama?

A mainstream media investigation

When engaged in sex, steer away from drugs because intoxication has a

tendency to lead to misconduct in which one would not otherwise engage.

Russell Brand accused of rape, sexual assault, and abusive behavior

(Channel 4 News) Channel 4 is a British public broadcast service. Sept 17, 2023: The comedian and actor Russell Brand, 48, has categorically denied historic [old] allegations of rape, sexual assault, and abusive behavior, after a number of women came forward with allegations against him. The claims are revealed in an investigation carried out by Dispatches, the Times, and The Sunday Times, which has been published today. It reveals shocking accounts about young Brand’s alleged predatory sexual behavior between 2004 and 2013. During that time Brand was a household name [in England], as a presenter on Channel 4’s Big Brother spin-off program then a DJ on BBC Radio 2. Channel 4 said it was “appalled to learn of the deeply troubling allegations” and has asked the relevant production company to investigate.

TRIGGER WARNING: Some viewers may find the accounts in this report distressing.

Brand denies sexual assault allegations, supporters say he's being targeted by media

(The Hill) Premiered 9/18/23: Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss reports that an underage woman [who was of consenting age according to the laws in the couple's country, the UK] has come forward accusing Russell Brand of sexual assault. #russell #assaulter

The Thug Life Sutra (discourse)

"Latin Thugs" by Cypress Hill with Mexican B Real, Scandinavian DJ Muggs, and Black Sen Dog, et al.

The Buddha explains how rare a human rebirth is with a powerful simile of a turtle and a floating wooden ring.

Dhr. Seven (trans.), Ashley Wells (ed.), Chiggala Sutta, "A Hole 1," Sacca Samyutta (SN 56.47) via suttafriends.org, Beth Upton (bethupton.com) recommendation

Karma: Giselle Bundchen saves sea turtle

“Meditators, suppose a person were to throw a piece of wood with a single hole in it into the ocean -- and there were a blind turtle in that ocean who popped up only once every hundred years.

“What do you think? Would that blind turtle, popping up once every century, ever poke its neck through the hole in that piece of wood?”

“Only after a very long time, venerable sir, if ever.”

“Meditators, I say, that blind turtle, popping up only once every hundred years, would poke its neck through the hole in that piece of wood sooner than a foolish person who has fallen into [rebirth in] the lower worlds would be reborn again as a human being.

[The thug life]

“Why is that? Meditators, it is because in lower worlds there is no Dharma practice or accruing merit.

“In the lower worlds [subhuman rebirths known as the downfall*], they just prey on each other, preying on the weak.

“Why is that? It is because they have not seen the Four Noble Truths. What four [ennobling truths]?

1. the ennobling truth of suffering
2. the ennobling truth of the origin of suffering
3. the ennobling truth of the end of suffering
4. the ennobling truth of the path that leads to the end of all suffering.

I look nothing like a turtle! (Mitch McConnell)

“Therefore, meditators, make an effort to understand: ‘This is suffering.’ Make an effort to understand: ‘This is the origin of suffering.’ Make an effort to understand: ‘This is the end of suffering.’

“Make an effort to understand: ‘This is the path that leads to the end of all suffering.’”

• Human beings in Buddhism
• A Buddhist Response to Contemporary Dilemmas of Human Existence (Bhikkhu Bodhi)
• "A Hole 2" (SN 56.48) Dutiya Chiggala Sutra (Sutta Friends)
• Chiggala Sutta: "The Hole" (Ven. Thanissaro, accesstoinsight.org)
• The Playboy (masturbation with Chester Brown)
• *"Subhuman rebirths"? (niraya or "downward path" of animals, asuras/demons, hungry ghosts, and the many hells or naraka in Buddhism)

Pastor dies, goes to hell, comes back (NDE)

Tim Newcomb (Popular Mechanics.com via MSN.com); Pastor Gerald A. Johnson on TikTok.com); Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Was this guy there, Pastor?

A [Protestant pastor] says he briefly went to hell years ago. He saw men walking like dogs and heard demons singing Rihanna songs. While many of the most publicized near-death experiences (NDEs) are positive, this was a journey to hell. Why? Negative NDEs also occur.

 

In 2016, a Michigan-based pastor named Gerald Johnson suffered a heart attack. He says he had an NDE that sent him somewhere he never thought he’d visit: hell.

Recently, Minister Johnson took to TikTok to share the details of his traumatic NDE — far from the kind of warm, bright-light epiphany one might expect to hear from someone who temporarily ventures into the great beyond of the afterlife.

Will there be a result, a fruit of deeds done well and ill? Do karmic seeds ripen?

 

“I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy,” the pastor recounts in his viral video. “I don’t care what [anyone] did to me, no one deserves that.”

 

Pastor Johnson says that immediately after his heart attack in February 2016, his "spirit" [subtle body] left his physical body and went down to [a] hell, entering through “the very center of the Earth.”

 

Though he says “The things I saw there are indescribable,” he did his best.

 

Pastor Johnson claims he saw a man walking on all fours like a dog and getting burned from head to toe: “His eyes were bulging, and worse than that, he was wearing chains on his neck. He was like a hell hound. There was a demon holding the chains."

 

Pastor Johnson also heard music in hell, including Rihanna’s “Umbrella” and Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” — traditionally upbeat tunes. Only this time, demons were singing the songs to “torture” people.

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  Who keeps a record of our karmic deeds? Yama?

  [The lowest and most painful hells in Buddhist cosmology are said to be very ironic. So that such irony could occur there by the "wardens of hell," which in the West we would call demons or devils, torturing denizens.]
• ["Hell" is real? We don't know. But the texts say so. Were those descriptions added or embellished over the centuries by scholars, commentators, and subcommentators? Embellished maybe, but invented whole cloth? Not likely. We must report what the sutras and other texts say. The traditions describe at least eight hells (and a worse ninth in between universes, known as interstitial hell, a place of desolation and darkness, in some ways worse than the unimaginable torments of Avici or "the waveless deep."]
• [Does anyone at Wisdom Quarterly believe there are actually literal hells? Yes, we havee heard it firsthand -- not that that would be enough. A potential proof was provided. Anyone can verify whether such worlds exist by gaining the meditative absorptions and designating an area of ground then looking beneath it with the enhanced powers of perception provided by the temporary purity of mind/heart/consciousness that results from the powerful concentration of samadhi. This practice is taught by at least one meditation master in Theravada Buddhist Burma. Buddhist laypeople, for the most part, certainly believe in literal hells before being exposed to Western doubt and skepticism.]
• [Buddhist hells are not eternal, BUT rebirth there can be so long lasting as to seem like an eternity many times over. Given the length of a kalpa, or "aeon," when a day or even a moment there is too blistering an experience to get over, one can only imagine that "eternity" is the perfect if not literal word for how long one is there when one ends up there. What brings one to a hell? Bad karma. What brings one out of hell? Good karma performed in advance, as there is little to absolutely no chance of doing good karma (deeds) there -- not mental, verbal, or physical -- once one begins to undergo unending torment.]
• [Just as Buddhist "heavens" (sagga) are too delightful and distracting, there is no chance of doing much good karma in these places because one become too preoccupied with the good life, exquisite pleasures of various sense strands -- sights, sounds, smells, savors, sensations, and streams of consciousness, this last one not exactly being a physical sense like the others but a pleasant abiding in the vipaka or "mental resultants" of deeds, which are exponential compared to what seems like a single deed that is, in fact, according to the Abhidharma, countless impulsions (javanas) and mind-moments (cittas), each of which is like a seed that bears fruit (phala) in the future.]
  

Pastor Johnson says his hellacious NDE made him realize he needed to forgive people who had wronged him, instead of hoping for their punishment.

• [Indeed, in Buddhist terms, it is said that the historical Buddha taught, "Forbearance (khanti) is the highest virtue," meaning "To forgive and let go of that [poop] is best."]
  

Maybe Pastor Johnson’s story sounds far-fetched. But scientists say that while many of the most publicized NDEs have a positive spin, negative NDEs certainly occur as well.

The experts just aren’t entirely sure how or why. Researchers — especially those from the International Association for Near-Death Studies — speculate that NDEs most likely happen due to a change in blood flow to the brain during sudden life-threatening events, like a heart attack, blunt trauma, or shock.

As the brain starts losing blood and oxygen, the electrical activity within it begins to power down. “Like a town that loses power one neighborhood at a time, local regions of the brain go offline one after another,” one expert told Scientific American.

During a NDE, the mind [which is not the brain and not fully dependent on the body] is left to keep working, but without its normal operational parameters.

Whether simply an oxygen shortage, some sort of anesthesia, or a neurochemical response to trauma, as hypothesized, an NDE leaves those who experience it with a real, sometimes traumatic memory.

We may not know how that memory happened — and unlike Pastor Gerald Johnson and his trip to [a very terrible tormenting] hell, victims may not want to recount it ever again — but it could change their life. 

• Gerald Johnson (@geraldajohnson1) | TikTok
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🎥 VIDEO: A guy [named Pastor Gerald Johnson] says he had a heart attack and went to hell. Here's what he saw (msn.com)

French policemen on Oct. 15, 2012, detain topless FEMEN protesters (Francois Mori/AP).

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Veils get thin, Dead are here again (video)

CC Liu, Ananda (DBM), Crystal Q., Sheldon S., Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; China Travel

In Buddhism, the departed are called pretas or petas, "hungry ghosts" in the Realm of Ghosts

Let's celebrate and chase the ghosts away.

Halloween is in the offing, only but a week away. The ghosts gather, hunker down, hanker on the periphery. The Buddha saw them, pathetic creatures, karma-born with hideous features, the clinging departed, stuck on this plane or in between, in the Realm of Ghosts, hungry for what they had before.

There's great danger in attachment, hidden and ready to explode. O, what misery they deplore! Naked, unhoused, hungry, thirsty, reborn deprived. How odd that anyone not believe. Every culture knows. Haints, shades, specters, phantoms all, hardly here yet not fully gone. We remember them on The Day of the Dead, El Dia de los Muertos, All Hallows Eve, and #中元节.

• Tim Scullion can photograph ghost 10/22/22 | Coast to Coast

中元节 Hungry Ghost Festival: Why the name? | Do's and Don'ts (2022)

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(China Travel) Premiered June 30, 2022. Some think the Hungry Ghost Festival is reminiscent of Halloween and the Day of the Dead. Think so? The Hungry Ghost Festival is also known as Zhongyuan Festival (中元节), which Buddhists call the Yulanpen Festival (盂兰盆节). It falls on the 15th day of the 7th lunar month, though some places celebrate it on the 14th day. In 2022, it falls on August 11 or 12. Let's see the history and origin of the Hungry Ghost Festival, activities, traditions, how the name came about, and the things that should never be done.

CHAPTERS

• 00:00 ​ - Intro: What is this fest?
• 00:21​ - Why is it called that?
• 01:12 - How to Celebrate it?
• 02:04 - 8 Things to NEVER DO!

Want to know more about the Zhongyuan Festival? Go to chinatravel.com/culture... Website: chinatravel.com, Facebook, Twitter. #hungryghostfestival #ghostfestival #中元节 #hungryghostfestival #ghostfestival