Chinese Paper Offerings
I visited Chinatown recently and amongst the fascinating range of weird things on sale were a variety of paper offerings. I’m familiar with paper offerings - they are typically paper money that is burned in furnaces at a temple in the belief that the offering will be received by the spirits of ancestors in the after-life. In one store I found some unusual paper offerings - a box containing a paper shirt & tie, paper Ferrero Rocher, paper cigarettes, even a paper model yacht. All the comforts of home in the after-life! We’ve not come far since the days of the Egyptians!
Add comment June 19th, 2006