(click on photo to enlarge)Mourners in "funeral square".
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2 comments:
I am totally fascinated that you can be paid to cry at somebodies funeral you didnt even know. I wonder if there is such a thing as a designer Crier???
To my knowledge, that doesn't happen here on a little island in the South China Sea.
If any tears are shed, they are by family, friends, work colleagues, acquaintances.
I know professional mourners were common in Europe until Victorian times. In England, for instance, Charles Dickens mentions them in Oliver Twist.
Do Hong Kong Chinese employ professional mourners?
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