Burning joss paper: Duty of care behind Hungry Ghost Festival offerings

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many festivals and rituals in contemporary societies are centred on memory and heritage in the form of connecting with others, and why the Hungry Ghost Festival is so enduring.

We do this, consciously or unconsciously, as a way to affirm who we are, sometimes in contrast with who we are not.

This is possibly why previous well-meaning initiatives to introduce “digital burning”, using apps to send joss paper to the netherworld, have not proved popular with the majority of believers (yet) because too many do not equate digital transmogrification with physical transmogrification.

how beliefs in ghosts and spirits were a cultural form of coping with death. 

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