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People’s Republic of China police sound the alarm: for the last a month in the country there were several hundred serious offenses, associated with the so-called “ghostly weddings.” Criminals dig up the corpses of young women in cemeteries to sell them families where single men have recently died. Used to be like traditions were the norm among many Chinese, however today laws China strictly prohibits such sacrilege.
It is noteworthy that tradition was banned only in 1949 Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Mao Zedong.
According to local beliefs, only married men can to get to heaven. For this reason, many superstitious Chinese parents trying to make their sons somebody else as soon as possible husbands. However, despite these efforts, voluntary or forced bachelors are found here no less than in any other country. According to Chinese beliefs, unmarried dead man can provide a pass to heaven, if you combine his corpse with marriage another deceased.
These ancient beliefs in China are followed by so far. True, not in cities, but mainly with villages where the people are not educated and divorced from civilization. Scary to imagine, but even cases of intentional murder of women with The goal is to woo their bodies for the dead. Fortunately these days criminals confine themselves to digging graves in cemeteries, although this in no way can be called law-abiding behavior.
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Demand for the Dead
According to the Chinese police, the proposal is born in demand. Surprisingly, for some reason, today many families in the PRC decide that their deceased relatives are doomed to the eternal torment of hell only for the reason that they did not manage to find their second in life half. And like any other loving parents, they try to help your children with all their might, even if stepping over the law. And since someone needs something illegal, there will always be people who do not disdain to get this and offer others for good cash reward.
Attackers go to cemeteries at night and look for the most old graves where only skeletons remained of the dead. Criminals dig out such graves, extract the remains from there, then they gently fill everything back with earth. Female bones fastened with wire and dressed in dresses. In this form of the deceased are for sale. The cost of one bride can be up to five thousand dollars, so some peasants are saving up money for such a “valuable acquisition “over the years.
Relatives of the deceased bachelor dig it out, conduct a rite weddings, then re-bury with the newly made spouse.
Even fake funerals require a preliminary wedding
About how strong the fear of staying in the minds of the Chinese single and for this reason do not go to heaven, eloquently says even at first glance a funny incident that happened the other day in the city of Rizhao. Its resident, pensioner Zhang Deyang, decided to check how much he is respected by relatives and friends, and therefore arranged fake own funeral, which invited fifty human.
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Despite the fact that the funeral was not real, the 66-year-old a man before this would certainly marry a dead woman, most secured a heavenly place in heaven, but most importantly – not aroused the suspicion of those invited to this ceremony that she fictitious. Instead of fifty came to the funeral of a smart Chinese only twenty invited, thereby causing deep sorrow and resentment of Zhang Deyang. True, the burial event itself was possible at fame because it attracted the attention of nearly two hundred people who until this mourning day, the alleged dead man was not even known by sight. TO let’s say that a fake funeral cost the pensioner sixteen thousand yuan, but Zhang Deyang regrets nothing. First, he made sure who is who from his environment relatives, and secondly, finally got married and now could live your life calmly …
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