The focus of Mid-Summer Ghost Festival is on deliverance and offprint. Out of fear among folk community, people would worship and make offers with the belief that such practice can prevent the rootless malicious ghosts from haunting the mortals and doing mischievous deeds. Besides The Main Altar, the sites for performing deliverance and offering rituals are the Old Venerable Temple and Qing An Temple. In the proceedings, a public notice is first posted in a serious manner. After the posting, the priest would sign and seal the notice with a writing brush in red ink; to let the public realize the content of the ritual and to proclaim to the lonely ghosts summoning them lo come learn the Buddha's teachings and repent. The edict to the nether world arc written on yellow paper. The deliverance & offering rituals practiced by Buddhism concentrate on chanting scriptures and the imprints of Buddha's hands implies delivering the ghosts to the Paradise. The offerings used in the rituals helve certain criteria. There s of principles: whole and partial, raw and cooked. depicts highest respect t and grandest action while the offering is sectioned, the lower ranked the deity. The raw depicts a cool relationship, while the "cooked" depicts acquaintance, familiarity.