Location:
Beijing, , China
Post Date:
Dec 6, 2010 8:58 PM
TAG ID:
dpaillustrations002276
(RM)
Credit:
Edmond Tang/China Daily/picture alliance/ANN / China Dai/Newscom
Format:
3618 x 2850 Color JPEG
Photographer:
Edmond Tang/China Daily
Special:
To go with the 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, right, and his father at their family's ming zhi pu, or ghost money shop, in Hong Kong. The 33-year-old makes modern paper offerings to be used during traditional rituals. 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"