Why marry posthumously

What is Moon Festival in Taiwan? Like other traditional Taiwanese holidays, the date of Moon Festival is on…. When someone finally picks it up, the family hiding nearby will immediately come out and ask the person to marry the dead. A guy randomly walked by the funeral or the tomb of a female stranger and then the ghost just fell in love with him. From this moment on, she started to appear in the dreams of this guy and made him have no choice but to find her family and propose posthumous marriage.

On the other hand, believe it or not, there are also living people who search for posthumous marriage. They teach children not to trust strangers and opening the door for them. In Taiwan,…. Some people want to marry a ghost because they have really bad luck. They believe that their ghost spouse can protect them from harm and even bring them considerable fortune.

Others do it since the fortuneteller says they are doomed to have an affair or more than one opposite-sex in their life. If this person is already married to another living person, due to the respect towards the dead, the ghost spouse will have the priority over the current one. When setting the table, the family needs to prepare one more set of tableware and leave a seat empty for the ghost.

It describes how a western traveler accidentally picks up a red envelop and gets involved in the marriage with a Taiwanese girl who already passed away. When seeing Leo, the western young man, picks up the red envelop, the family shows up and tells him:.

No matter if you find this tradition interesting, curious, superstitious or creepy, I would only like to give you a piece of useful advice:. Posthumous marriage will also bring the surviving spouse into the family of the deceased spouse, which can create an alliance or moral satisfaction. The Billava community is one of a few in India that practice posthumous marriage. Others that do so include the Badagas, Komatis and the Todas. In China there is a rare tradition called minghun or a spirit marriage.

Although he agrees to drink the poison and die, they decide it is better for him to marry a living woman he was previously engaged to and remain alive until his natural death. The deceased woman then transforms into a group of white butterflies and flies away into the night.

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