The religious system of China, its ancient forms, evolution, history and present aspect, manners, customs and social institutions connected therewith (1892)
Groot, J. J. M. de (Jan Jakob Maria), 1854-1921 · Leyden, E. J. Brill · leaf 252
e, as also sheds or cottages in whichencoffined corpses are preserved for burial (see pp. 127 sqq.), andthe small buildings erected by benevolent men as conservatories ofsoul tablets of dead people who have no offspring to attend totheir worship (Plate XXVIII). Sometimes the urns are depositedin… … Public Repository for Soul Tablets, containing Bone Urns. RE-BURIAL OF BONES IN URNS AND COFFINS. 1059 payment therefor. The disinterred bones are never taken home,prejudice forbidding this, as explained on page 840. On patting the urn away, one of the kinsmen, taking a coupleof burning…
Ancestor worship · Burial · Demonology · Witchcraft -- China · China -- Religion
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