Hi Nacth and all,

Thanks for this 'enlightening' thread, at least now I am no longer blur blur doing what I'm supposed to be doing. More questions will be forthcoming and since it is now still the hungry ghost festival, for a start, can you guide us step by step on how to do a proper offering to the ghost brothers please?

I saw in some of your posts, Tua Li Ya Pek were there to keep order and control distributions but for most of us here, we do not have the patron of Tua Li Ya Pek. What we did was, first, we pray for Guan Yin then follow by praying for the ghost. Is that the correct procedure? What kind of offerings should we offer to Guan Yin and the ghost brothers?

I can see that people doing offering to the ghost keep dwindling year after year in the city. i think one of the reason is bcos most of us do not know what we are doing, why we are doing it and how to do it properly. Imaging now we can find paper smartphones, tablets, LV bags, ossim massage chairs and whatever you can think of to be offered to the death!! Me in my forties also cannot accept it, what more the younger/modern generations? An those stuffs are so commercialize, not cheap at all, sometimes it keep me wonder if they ever received them at all and I feel like a ‘sohai’ burning money for nothing! I almost wanted to give up till I come across your thread to be very frank

So, I think if you can guide us here how to do it properly, i think chances are better this culture might live on slightly longer at least. We need to learn and we need to understand so that we can explain it to the younger generation for the culture to continue. The story of “well, we do it bcos our parents did it, so we will hv to carry on doing it” can no longer pakai in this modernized generation

This post has been edited by arrsoo: Aug 26 2016, 06:40 PM