Yeah, so this weekend the Chinese celebrate a holiday. The holiday is called, (in English) "Tomb Sweeping Day." It's very interesting. If you click on these 2 links below, you will understand more of the Chinese culture that makes these people so unique.
http://www.gio.gov.tw/info/festival_c/tomb_e/html/grave.htm
http://www.gio.gov.tw/info/festival_c/tomb_e/html/grave.htm
"If a spirit is not kept happy, perhaps because it had a bad death, an improper burial or has no descendents to perform the proper rituals, it becomes a ghost (sometimes called a "hungry ghost," a term with Buddhist origins). Ghosts may attack human beings to prompt them to meet the ghosts' needs or at least to draw attention to their plight.
Ghosts receive the most attentions during Ghost Month, the seventh month in the Chinese lunar year, and especially during the Ghost Festival on the fiftteenth day.
In mainland China, belief in ghosts and evil spirits is declining under the influence of atheistic Communism. But in Taiwan, which split from China in 1949, the vast majority of the population (perhaps as much as 90%) believes in ghosts. Late-night television is filled with video of haunted houses and ghost-busting and afterlife experts make a good business of advising distressed clients on how to appease their angry ancestors. "
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