A woman prays at a cemetery in Dagantangcun, 30km east of Beijing, during last year’s Ching Ming festival. Photo: AFP
As Chinese honour dead ancestors, illegal practise of ghost marriages still lingers
Villagers are willing to pay hundreds of thousands of yuan for a female corpse to bury alongside an unmarried deceased male, Xinhua reports
A woman prays at a cemetery in Dagantangcun, 30km east of Beijing, during last year’s Ching Ming festival. Photo: AFP