Festival

Festival groups recurring calendar observances, distinct from the type's one time historical categories such as Council, Schism or Treaty, which mark events with a fixed date rather than an annual return. Zhongyuan Jie, the Ghost Festival held when the underworld's gates are believed to open, shows the category's cross tradition reach, since Daoist Zhongyuan rites and Buddhist Ullambana observances converge on the same date within Chinese folk religious practice.