Rituals
Rituals articles and guides
Chinese Funeral Traditions: A Guide to Death Customs
White clothes, burning paper, and the number seven — understanding the elaborate customs surrounding Chinese funerals.
Burning Ghost Money: The Complete Guide to Afterlife Offerings
Paper money, paper houses, paper smartphones — everything you need to know about sending goods to deceased loved ones.
How to Offer Incense: A Practical Guide to Chinese Temple Worship
The correct way to burn incense, make offerings, and pray at a Chinese temple — etiquette for respectful visitors.
Chinese Rituals for the Dead: A Practical Guide to Ancestor Worship
Qingming Festival, Ghost Month, the winter solstice — Chinese culture has a calendar of obligations to the dead. Here is what happens, when it happens, and why it still matters.
Chinese Rituals and Ceremonies: The Sacred Practices That Connect Heaven and Earth
Chinese rituals are not empty formalities. They are technologies — precise procedures designed to maintain the connection between the human world and the divine world, between the living and the dead.