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Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is about the Chinese practice of marriage among deceased individuals. Upon the death of her fiancé, a bride could choose to go through with the wedding, in which the groom was represented by a white cockerel at the ceremony. A groom had the option ghost bride las vegas marrying his late fiancée, with no disadvantages, but there have been no records of such weddings.

When it comes to death customs, an unmarried Chinese woman has no descendants to worship her or care for her as part of a lineage. In every household, an altar is prominently displayed with the spirit tablets of the paternal ancestors and the images of the gods. A married woman’s tablet is kept at the altar of her husband’s family. Instead, she will be “given a temporary paper tablet, placed not on the domestic altar but in a corner near the door. Another death custom concerning an unmarried daughter prohibited her from dying in her natal home. Not only did the Chinese customs concerning death greatly burden the family, but an unmarried daughter became a source of great embarrassment and concern.

In Charlotte Ikels “Parental Perspectives on the Significance of Marriage” she reports, “Traditionally, girls who did not marry were regarded as a threat to the entire family and were not allowed to continue living at home. Even in contemporary Hong Kong, I was told that unmarried women are assumed to have psychological problems. However, it did come with some negative connotations, being called a “fake spirit-marriage” or referred to as “marrying a spirit tablet”, and a way to avoid marriage. If a son died before marriage, his parents arranged a ghost marriage to provide him with progeny to continue the lineage and give him his own descendants. The ceremony itself took on characteristics of both a marriage and a funeral, with the spirit of the deceased bride being “led” by a medium or priest, while her body is transferred from her grave to be laid next to her husband. The purpose of the daughter-in-law was not to produce offspring, as she was to live a chaste life, but she became the “social instrument” to enable the family to adopt. The adoption was carried out by writing up a contract, which was then placed under the dead man’s tablet.