1. 🎭 Ge-tai as community entertainment: The page highlights how people gather to watch entertainers perform during the 7th Month, a tradition that blends ritual offerings with lively stage shows. It’s a fascinating mix of reverence and revelry.

2. 🪑 Empty chairs with offerings: Organizers often set up long tables with empty chairs, each accompanied by a cup of tea or even tins of canned food. These are symbolic seats reserved for spirits, reflecting the belief that the departed join the festivities.

3. 👘 Period costumes and rehearsals: Performers sometimes rehearse in traditional costumes during the day before the evening shows, underscoring the theatrical and ceremonial aspects of Ge-tai.

4. 🌅 Linked to everyday life: The author even mentions stopping for breakfast at Changi Point before heading to a Feng Shui audit, showing how Ge-tai events are woven into daily routines and professional practices.

5. 🏮 Cultural continuity: These celebrations are not just entertainment—they’re part of a broader ritual cycle tied to the Hungry Ghost Festival, where honoring spirits and ancestors is central.

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These people are waiting for entertainers performing on-stage for the Chinese 7th month ... Entertainment 

This lady in period costume rehearing her lines... On stage in the afternoon...

Was at Changi Point for breakfast before going to a nearby Feng Shui audit

Chinese 7th month celebrations 

More photos..

It is Common for the Organizers to set a long table and place "empty" chairs.

And each table and chair may have a cup of tea and in this case assorted tins of can food..

See photo below:/