Ghost Month 2026: A Guide to Zhongyuan for Diaspora Families
The Gates Open: A Month When the Living Remember
In Chinese cosmology, the seventh month of the lunar calendar belongs to the dead. The gates of the underworld open on the first day, and for the next month the ancestors return to the homes they…
For over 150 years, the Wuyi region (五邑, Wǔyì) of southern Guangdong — the five counties of Taishan, Kaiping, Xinhui, Enping, and Heshan — has sent more overseas Chinese across the Pacific than any other place on earth. Today their descendants number in the millions, scattered across North America, Southeast Asia, Australia, and Latin America.…
Qingming in the Five Counties: A Diaspora Descendant’s Guide to Tomb-Sweeping in Wuyi
Every spring, a quiet migration takes place. From San Francisco, Toronto, Sydney, and Singapore, thousands of overseas Chinese board planes bound for a small region in southern China. They carry no suitcases of gifts—just themselves, and sometimes, a lifetime of questions. They…