although recipients will generally overlook this minor breach of etiquette. People usually carry juzu prayer beads at funerals; the beads’ design or the way they are carried differ depending on ...

The performance in a Changhua County farming community is a modern mash-up of ancient Chinese funeral rites and folk traditions, with saxophones, rock music and daring outfits. Da Zhong women’s ...

Changhua (Taiwan) (AFP) – At a funeral in rural Taiwan, musicians wearing pleated mini-skirts and go-go boots march around a coffin to the beat of the 1980s hit "I Hate Myself for Loving You".

Xi, it seems, sees his fundamental task as freeze-framing, and asserting Communist party control over, what it is to be Chinese. In Let Only Red Flowers Bloom, Emily Feng thankfully provides ...

Yang Zhiwei said sea burials now account for 4 percent of the city's annual cremation services. "In the recent decade, we ...

And it's a prompt to think more about the role of flowers in our lives. Though we consider them essential for pivotal moments like weddings and funerals, flowers are often "dismissed as decorative ...

Traditional Chinese funerals usually follow well-established ... offering alternatives like bamboo, tree, lawn and flower burials -- methods that forgo traditional gravesites in favor of returning ...

Traditional Chinese funerals usually follow well-established ... offering alternatives like bamboo, tree, lawn and flower burials -- methods that forgo traditional gravesites in favor of returning ...