Location:
Beijing, , China
Post Date:
Dec 6, 2010 8:58 PM
TAG ID:
dpaillustrations002279
(RM)
Credit:
Edmond Tang/China Daily/picture alliance/ANN / China Dai/Newscom
Format:
4896 x 3264 Color JPEG
Photographer:
Edmond Tang/China Daily
Special:
To go with story "Bidding fashionable farewell to the dead"
Keywords:
Tradition, Lifestyle, Kultur, Anpflanzung, China, Porzellan, Culture, lifestyle
Release Status:
No Model Release, No Property Release
Caption:
Au Yeung Ping-chi makes a pair of "high heel shoes", just one of a range of modern paper effigies he has been commissioned to make by customers in Hong Kong. Chinese people believe that the burned paper effigies (traditionally money) will help loved ones in the afterlife. To go with story "Bidding fashionable farewell to the dead"