Hungry ghost festival - Cultural or Religious festival?

Question

Hungry ghost festival - Cultural or Religious festival?

Answer 1

cultural or religious i dont care... i only have fun scare people AHAHAHAHA....

we gonna play ouija board tonight AHAHHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAA

(i did laugh like that)

Answer 2

religious more than cultural

Answer 3

Religious related some ancient cultural  

Answer 4

It is both cultural and religion mix.

Due to the long history, lots of the festival has been very difficult to draw a line between cultural and religion.

i.e. Everyone gift Angpow and except angpow regardless of their religion. During CNY, Hari Raya or Deepavali. WHY?

Many cultural and/or religion practice have become part of the living and it do change along the way people celebrating it.

Answer 5

That is a cultural festival.

Answer 6

pagan culture beleive  

Answer 7

"On the thirteenth day the three realms of Heaven, h**l and the realm of the living are open and both Taoists and Buddhists would perform rituals to transmute and absolve the sufferings of the deceased."

Just looking at that showed me it had to do with religion but it has some to do with culture too; ancient culture at least.

Answer 8

I think it's religious.

Answer 9

It is a Chinese cultural but the festival is mainly "celebrate" by the Buddhist and by this, it is more to religious for the modern day,