The Hungry Ghost festival, or Yulan Festival, offers sacrifices to ancestors – as well as wandering ghosts – to use in the afterlife. AFP photographers captured scenes from around the city as Hongkongers paid tribute on the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar.
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