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The Netherworld Travel Pass, also known as the “Spirit Road Pass”, is a symbolic "document" used in traditional funerals and Taoist rituals. Its main purpose is to serve as [...]

Continuing from the previous discussion, in this instalment, we will be sharing the common practices and taboos of the "Nail Sealing Ceremony” in modern day funerals. Sequence of the [...]

In Cantonese funeral customs, if a second relative passes away during the mourning period or within a hundred days of a funeral, people often do not see this as a [...]

In traditional Cantonese funeral customs, during the mourning period, family members would not only wear mourning clothes, such as hemp cloth and mourning accessories (known as "xiao"), but also white [...]

There is a saying in Cantonese funeral customs of "Clashes the seven periods". If the soul of the deceased has to pass through the “ghost path” and it happens [...]

At Cantonese Taoist funeral you will often see a ‘yellow notice’ (黄榜) pasted somewhere near the coffin area during the wake. This is a notice that contains information of the [...]

In Cantonese Taoist funerals you can often see two large white lanterns hanging on both sides of the funeral. These two large white lanterns are written with the last [...]

During the ghost festival in the Lunar seventh month, believers will generally offer food and burn paper items/paper money to these "good brothers". This is so as not to [...]

In Cantonese funeral customs, pregnant woman, beside wearing Ma and filial piety arm wear, they also have to tie a red rope around their waist with a pair of red [...]