Came home today (Actually 31 Aug.) to house windows all closed… The burning area is unfortunately directly under my living room window… The huge stack of paper is Chinese paper money folded into the shape of ancient Chinese taels… Hell economy must be in inflation mode… all the ancestor worshipping Chinese burnt like loads of these “paper money” for the ancestors…
Its the last day of the Hungry Ghost month… so they are doing big send off…. The gates of ” Hell”(read: the afterlife) closing today… stragglers will be picked up by the “Hell police”…. cos ancestors can’t sit around in the world of the living on a regular day…. its just not done.
The practice regarding this burning is… IF you wanna send your dearly departed ANYTHING.. Have it made into paper format… It’s like this… you want ur dead grandma to have a pooch… get a paper pooch made in shape of her favourite dog.. i knew someone who customised everything… when his grandma died.. they burnt her a three story mansion and a pooch made to look like her Shih Tzu…. no kid! In ancient time, they would sacrifice the real dog… but people since the Han dynasty got practical and made do with clay or paper representations.
If you want them to have latest movie, get paper DVDs of the latest titles…. OR…. if BMW… yeah, there are craftsmen who can do any kind of car…they also do any kind of electronic device I hear Iphone6 is popular this year.
Sorry folks for the blur pics.. I had to take photos when no one was looking. I do not have a hidden cam unfortunately. Sort of makes me wish I had Google glass.
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