Weddings are known to be the parmanent union of couples who are in love, and these couples always make an oath of being together till death do them apart.
In China, there's a group of people who still keep their
traditions are having a different kind of weddings.
Arranged marriages are nothing new, and in China, they even reach beyond the grave.
A grieving father and four accomplices have been arrested in China
for digging up the corpse of a teenage girl to serve as a “ghost bride”
for the man’s son, who died in a car crash.
The people arrested had dug up the body of a girl who poisoned herself
after failing exams last year. The father had apparently paid upwards of
$5,000 to the men who dug up the body for him.
Marriages after death are relatively common in rural China. In these
occurrences, a ceremony is performed and the bodies buried together.
The long-outlawed practice survives today: last year, a gang in
southern China was arrested for creating corpses for ghost marriages
when female bodies ran short.
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