Lunar calendar or crescent moons and others employing detailed calculations. Since each lunation is approximately days (29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, 3 seconds, or days), it is common for the months of a lunar calendar to alternate between 29 and 30 days. Since the period of twelve such lunations, a lunar year, is only 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 34 seconds ( days), purely lunar calendars lose around 11 days per year relative to the Gregorian calendar. In purely lunar calendars like the Islamic calendar, the lack of intercalation causes the lunar months to cycle through all the seasons of
A Month of Hungry Ghosts various forms, they are slowly dying out in many countries or may only be performed for several days of the month. Singapore is unique in that the rituals are brought to life throughout the entire seventh lunar month. At the same time, the immigrants in Singapore have brought their own native rituals to the small island nation where the hungry-ghost month still thrives. "A Month of Hungry Ghosts" captures these rituals and performances throughout an entire seventh lunar month in Singapore. Work on the film began in August 2005. Taiwan-based artist MoShang blends recorded sound samples from the streets of