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Chinatown Ghost

Suddenly, they heard the dead body on the bed cry out, and uncovering the quilt, they found that Zhu had come to life again. They were full of joy and began to ask him all about it.
But Zhu only replied to his wife, saying, “When I died I did not expect to come back. However, by the time I had got a few miles on my way, I thought of the poor old body I was leaving behind me, dependent for everything on others, and with no more enjoyment of life. So I made up my mind to return, and take you away with me.”



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China's First Haunted House

While China has a rich tradition of ghosts and ghouls of its own, Halloween is a non-event for most Chinese, who hold their own commemoration for the dead during the Qingming festival or Tomb-Sweeping Day usually marked in April.

But the creators of the "Shanghai Nightmare" attraction, 26-year-old American-Chinese Gan Quan and his girlfriend Xu Jiali, said it's about time Chinese got a taste of Halloween.


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The Hungry Ghost

The Ghost Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday celebrated on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. A solemn holiday, the Ghost Festival represents the connections between the living and the dead, earth and heaven, body and soul.
The entire seventh month of the Chinese calendar is called the Ghost Month, a month in which ghosts and spirits are believed to emerge out from the lower world to visit earth. The Ghost Festival is the climax of a series of the Ghost Month celebrations.

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Pumpkin Mug Shots

I can't see any way to order any of these, so I'm thinking it's a wholesale kind of thing going on.

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Chinese Halloween

I had no idea China celebrated Halloween.

And how creative that a pitchfork and pointed red hat are accessories for the pumpkin-headed kid in the center.

That pumpkin mask is wonderful. I'd grab it off his head and make a break for it. I need that mask.