WEI-YI CHENG IS VERY.SHE IS preparing wonderful food for a special day.She is cooking a lot of different food:rice,vegetables,fish and sweet desserts. This will be a delicious feast. All around Taiwan,wei-yi's friends and family are also cooking feasts. They cook all kinds of delicious food,too. They also prepare beautiful clothing for the visitors. They all want to be readay for this special day. But the visitors are not people. They are ghosts! In Taiwan, and in many other countries in Asia, people celebrate Ghost Month. This is a very old tradition. Ghost Month is the seventh
Month of the Chinese calendar. People. believe that ghosts walk the Earrh at that time. Ghosts are peple who died. Then the ghosts will not hurt people. On the first day of Ghost Month, Wei-Yi Cheng and mamy others have a feast of Ghost Month, too During ghost month, many Taiwanese do not get married or buy new houses. They do not staet new businesses or go swimming at this time. lt is bad luck to do these things in Ghost mont, At the end of Ghost Month, it's time for the ghosts to leave. Wei-Yi prepares another feast for the ghosts. She puts the food outside her home this time. The ghosts are happy, and the people feel safe again