ghost money
Burned ancestral offerings
Ghost money is paper currency or imitation money burned as an offering to deceased ancestors in Chinese and other East Asian traditions.
The practice sends symbolic wealth to spirits in the afterlife.
Also called joss paper or hell money, it often features elaborate designs mimicking real currency.
They burned ghost money at the grave during the Qingming Festival.
- joss paperRitual paper for burning
- ancestor worshipReligious honoring of forebears
- ancestral spiritsSouls of deceased kin
- burningCombustion in progress
- offeringsThings presented or given
afterlife · spirit world · incense · funeral · funeral rites · paper currency · Chinese tradition · tomb sweeping · ritual · smoke · ashes · underworld · departed souls · filial piety · paper gold · silver ingots · paper houses · sacrifice
- Taiwan beliefsJade Emperor, Taoism, folk religion, temple fair, joss paper
- Ghost Festivalwandering spirits, ancestral spirits, joss paper, food offerings, fruit offerings
- funeral customsburial, funeral, cremation, funeral procession, casket
- mourningfuneral, burial, grief, bereavement, wake
- funeral ritesfuneral, bury, burial, funeral mass, burial rites
- offeringsburnt offering, altar offerings, sin offering, peace offering, oblations
ghost moneylegal tender
Officially recognized payment medium
real money · hard currency · fiat currency · cash · banknotes
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