joss paper
Burned for ancestors
Joss paper is sheets of paper, often gold or silver colored, that are burned as offerings in Chinese religious practices and ancestor worship.
The burning symbolically transfers money, goods, or blessings to deceased relatives or deities in the afterlife.
Also called ghost money or spirit money, it may be folded into shapes resembling gold ingots or printed to look like currency.
Families burn joss paper during Qingming Festival to honor their ancestors.
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- incenseAnger greatly, or aromatic resin
- altarSacred ritual table
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- offeringsThings presented or given
tradition · worship · temple · veneration · shrine · rites · festival · prayer
Those from whom one descends
- underworldRealm of the departed
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- ghostApparition of the dead
- hellUnderworld of suffering
heaven · offering · deceased · realm · passage · journey · netherworld · departed
Service honoring the dead
- graveSerious and worrying
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- bereavementState following loss
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
remembrance · tomb · burial · death · condolence · wake · interment · grief
burning
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- incenseAnger greatly, or aromatic resin
- altarSacred ritual table
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
offerings · tradition · worship · temple · veneration · shrine · rites · festival · prayer · smoke
ancestors
Those from whom one descends
- underworldRealm of the departed
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- ghostApparition of the dead
hell · heaven · offering · deceased · realm · passage · journey · netherworld · departed · soul
funeral
Service honoring the dead
- graveSerious and worrying
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- bereavementState following loss
memorial · remembrance · tomb · burial · death · condolence · wake · interment · grief · anniversary
gold
Element seventy-nine
banknote · replica · bamboo · tissue · folding · cutting · printing · crafting · denomination · bundle
joss paperlegal tender
Officially recognized payment medium
real money · cash · hard currency · fiat currency · banknotes
joss paperearthly possessions
Material things one owns
paper, papers, papered, wallpaper, paperwork, papyrus, papering, paperweight, papery