Showing posts with label amusing things. Show all posts
Showing posts with label amusing things. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

The Ancestors like Gucci, too!

They do. 




This is in a wet market in Kowloon district. There, the deceased may also enjoy Chanel (paper) goods, although it is hard to tell if those are knock-offs.

An interesting cultural note about a traditional Chinese society that cares for its alive and its deceased.

For those who are beginners in Chinese traditional culture, ancestor worship, or at least ancestral piety often takes the form of burning paper imitations of goods such as money, clothes, etc, so that the deceased loved ones could enjoy these material goods in the afterlife.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

The Little Details

See if you can spy what's wrong with this picture!

(Hint: imagine you're in America)


Or, rather, what's very RIGHT.