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Fleeting Wonders: Police Thwart A Chinese Ghost Wedding - Atlas Obscura

Ghost marriages are a Chinese custom designed to allow families to maintain the patrilineal order and maximize their ties to each other, even through tragedy. In their most basic form, they involve digging up a dead, unmarried woman, holding a ceremony ...

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