Pesta Hantu Lapar / Hungry Ghost Festival

Syd

bulan nih bulan hantu lapar.

kat tv pun banyak, citer cina seram dah keluar

so, apa yang korang penah dgr ttg hantu lapar nih? mungkin rakan sekerja korang ker, bos korang ker..penah citer..
geng2 waktu sekolah ker..

jom citer pasal hantu lapar

Syd

Perayaan Hantu Lapar

    Perayaan hantu Lapar adalah satu lagi perayaan yang disambut oleh masyarakat Buddha di negara ini.Ia adalah berdasarkan sejarah yang berlaku di Negara China berkurun dahulu.Pada masa dahulu, ada seorang pemuda bernama Mu Lian, yang hidup dengan ibunya yang sangat kedekut. Ibunya selalu menghina pengemis dan menghalau mereka kalau mereka datang meminta makanan.

                    Mu Lian pula adalah seorang yang baik dan pemurah.Apabila Mu Lian berniat menjadi sami, ibunya sangat marah kerana anaknya tidak lagi bekerjauntuk menambah kesenangannya.Ibunya mengambil keputusan untuk memberi sami makan makanan yang berdaging, supaya sami ini berdosa. Tetapi ibu ini telah mendapat balasan yang setimpal, dimana dia telah dihantar ke neraka. Mu Lian sebagai anak yang baik sentiasa berdoa siang dan malam untuk ibunya. Akhirnya doanya didengari Buddha, maka Buddha memberi keizinan supaya setahun sekali pintu neraka dibuka roh-roh boleh kembali ke bumi dan diberi makanan.Mulai saat itu, pada setiap hari ketujuh dalam bulan ketujuh kelendar Cina adalah hari memperingati hantu-hantu lapar.

                 Di hari ini, makan dan minuman yang biasanya menjadi kegemaran ahli keluarga yang telah mati diletakkan di luar rumah.Mereka menganggap ahli keluarga yang telah mati akan datang melawat rumah pada hari ini. Tujuannya adalah supaya dalam rumah tidak diganggu roh jahat.' Paper Money' atau duit palsu juga dibakar sebagai persembahan kepada roh, supaya ia boleh digunakan dalam alam mereka. Untuk memastikan yang roh-roh ini tidak mendatangkan mudarat, persembahan

Syd

The Buddha's happy day

To Buddhists, the seventh lunar month is a month of joy. This is because the fifteen day of the seventh month is the Buddha's joyful day and the day of rejoice for monks.

The origins of the Buddha's joyful day can be found in the scriptures. When the Buddha was alive, his disciples meditated in the forests of India during the rainy season of summer. Three months later, on the fifteen day of the seventh month, they would emerge from the forests to celebrate the completion of their meditation and report their progress to the Buddha. Because the number of monks who attained enlightenment during that period was high, the Buddha was very pleased.

[edit] Mahāmaudgalyāyana Saves His Mother From Hell



Food is offered to the ancestors during the annual Ghost Festival

The Buddhist origins of the festival can be traced back to a story that originally came from India, but later took on culturally Chinese overtones. In the Ullambana Sutra, there is a well descriptive account of a well-to-do merchant who eventually gives up his trade to become a Buddhist monk. He became one of the Buddha's chief disciples. His name was Mahāmaudgalyāyana. (Ch. 目連, Mulian, Pāli Mahāmoggallāna)

After he attained the title of arhat, he thought of his father and mother, and wondered what happened to them. He used his clairvoyance to see where they were reborn and found his father in the god realm.

However, his mother had been reborn in a lower realm, known as the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. His mother took on the form of a hungry ghost---it could not eat because its throat was very thin and no food could pass through, yet it was always hungry because it had a fat belly. His mother had been greedy with the money he left her. He had instructed her to kindly host any Buddhist monks that ever came her way, but instead she withheld her kindness and her money. It was for this reason she was reborn in the realm of hungry ghosts.

Mahāmaudgalyāyana eased his mother's suffering by receiving the instructions of feeding pretas from the Buddha. Buddha instructed Mahāmaudgalyāyana to place food on a clean plate, recite the food transformation mantra seven times, snap his fingers then tip the food on clean ground. By doing so, the preta's hunger was relieved and through these merits, his mother was born as a dog.

Once again, Mahāmaudgalyāyana sought the Buddha's advice to help his mother gain a human birth. The Buddha established a day after the traditional summer retreat (the 15th day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar, usually mid-to-late August) on which Mahāmaudgalyāyana was to offer food to 500 bhikkhus. Through the merits created, Mahāmaudgalyāyana's mother gained a human birth.

Due to Confucian influence, the offering became directed towards ancestors rather than the Sangha and ancestor worship has replaced the simple ritual of relieving the hunger of pretas. However some Buddhist temples still continue the ancient practice of donating to the Sangha.

[edit] A difference between the two festivals
Buddhist monks perform a rite of feeding hungry ghosts during Ullambana.
Buddhist monks perform a rite of feeding hungry ghosts during Ullambana.

Chinese Buddhists often say that there is a difference between Ullambana and the traditional Chinese Zhongyuan Jie, usually saying people have mixed superstitions (such as burning joss paper items) and delusional thoughts, rather than think that Ullambana is actually a time of happiness.[citation needed] This time of happiness is sometimes used as a reason for the festival to be called as the Chinese Halloween.

Syd

Gadis ko tai digesa tidak berpakaian seksi
15-08-2007 10:22:45 PM  


PULAU PINANG:  Seluar pendek dibenarkan untuk penyanyi dan penari dalam persembahan pentas di Pesta Hantu Lapar, tetapi pakaian menjolok mata seperti jenis yang jarang, baju sangkut (halter neck) dan coli bikini dilarang.

Demikian garis panduan baru untuk gadis-gadis ko tai, atau acara persembahan pentas dalam dialek Hokkien.  

Sekurang-kurangnya 150 pertunjukan wayang Cina dan moden di pentas-pentas sementara dianjurkan di seluruh Pulau Pinang sewaktu perayaan ini yang bermula Isnin hingga 10 Sept.


Nyanyian seorang gadis ko tai menarik perhatian ramai di persembahan Festival Hantu Lapar berdekatan bangunan Komtar di bandar Georgetown. (foto The Star)

Penyanyi-penyanyi muda dan manis, digelar gadis ko tai, menjadi daya tarikan orang ramai di acara-acara ini apabila mereka mempersembahkan lagu-lagu terkini dengan gerak tarian pantas mengikut alunan muzik rancak.

Pengerusi Persatuan Teong Guan, Lim Yam Koi, yang menyelaras perayaan selama sebulan itu menggesa semua penganjur agar memberikan perhatian pada penyanyi dan penari undangan supaya mereka mematuhi kod berpakaian itu.

揇ulu pernah terjadi beberapa kes gadis-gadis ko tai memakai pakaian jarang tanpa pakaian dalam untuk memancing perhatian penonton.  

揥alaupun kami tidak menerima aduan mengenai penyanyi wanita yang berpakaian menjolok mata sejak tiga tahun lalu, saya telah mengarahkan semua ahli persatuan agar memantau setiap persembahan, khususnya kod pakaian," katanya semalam.

揚enyanyi dan penari dinasihatkan tidak memakai pakaian bercoli sahaja (tube-top), yang mendedahkan belakang atau macam bikini di atas pentas. Seluar pendek tidak jadi masalah,

Syd

Just as Halloween is for Americans, the 慔ungry Ghost festival

fariepari

dah ada kan benang nihh?
mod napa x merge jek?

bettyboops

syd tak perasan thread ni dah ada kat page belakang kot..

Syd

a ah
tak perasan

sorry

penpink

Originally posted by fariepari at 16-8-2007 10:40 AM
dah ada kan benang nihh?
mod napa x merge jek?

kat mana thread tu eyk?

falcon_9009

uhhh!!! kat mana ni???? apesal dorang x jemput aku ha??

Mengikut pengalaman... kalau waktu pesta hantu lapar... bertambak berabuk lah Penang dgn abu dan ashes bahan bakaran dorang.  Pastu memalam ... sure konsert rock gegar taman nye species berkumandang... bingit benar...

*** seber mengong... double post laks

[ Last edited by  Dookiezz at 11-9-2007 05:32 PM ]

rourouleya

padan la org cina seme bakar "sampah" sesuka ati depan umah!!!

abes umah aku masuk abok itam, hasil kertas kunig diorg bakar.....:@ :@

tapi diorg kata abok tu xleh disapu.... sbb antu atok nenek diorg klu nk balik kene tgk kesan abok terbakar tu la....

klu camtu la.... abok2 yg masuk umah aku, kira atok nenek aku nk dtg melawat gak la...... :@

Anden

yenil95

Kawan2 cina aku ada kata, banyak kisah2 terjumpa hantu jadi dalam bulan ogos ni..sapa boleh confirm yek?..

hantu-hantu ni party dalam bulan ni lah gamaknye ye..

Maxx

teringat cerita seram Singapore....The Maid

kisah berkisar pasal hungry ghost month nih

roll_vT

aku yg lapar skrg ni...bukan hantu...

unekspekted

korang perasan tak.. anytime mase ghost festival orang cine je..  major disaster happened...

mcm.. 911.. earthquake kat Iram..

list.. any?

baksamakmu

pa padah kau tok???

nazurah

bagi la senarai penuh TT...

Yang aku ingat... anak opismate aku mati lemas masa ghost festival... opismate cina aku dah pesan kalau bulan2 hantu ni janganlah nak mandi laut ke, buat benda2 yang bahaya... tapi member aku ni mcm tak kisah sangat sebab excited nak pi berkelah dengan family...

nak dijadikan cerita anak dia tu memang ada sawan tarik... mati lemas la dia dalam laut kat endau