Yue Laan Festival Night 1: Sheung Wan

The Yue Laan Jit is the "Hungry Ghost Festival." In Southern China it is believed that each year, during the seventh lunar month, the gates of the underworld are thrown open, and angry ghosts roam freely on the earth. To keep them from hurting, possessing, or even killing people, it is necessary to placate them with hell money (paper dollars burned on the street) and all-night Cantonese opera.