How Can The Dead Get Married - Ghost Marriage

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Ghost marriage, also called wedding of the dead, is to look for a spouse for who passed away. If some engaged young boys and girls died before they get married, their parents would think the ghosts would trouble the family if not finish the marriage. So the parents have to hold the wedding and bury them together to let them be a couple in heaven.

The ghost marriage appeared as early as the Han Dynasty. Due to the waste of society's manpower and material, it was banned then. But in fact, it was never abandoned in all dynasties, especially by the rulers. For example, when Cao Chong passed away at his thirteen, his heartbreaking father Cao Cao matched him a deceased Miss Zhen and buried them together. In Song Dynasty, the ghost marriage reached its peak. With the strengthening of women's chastity, it was still popular in Qing Dynasty, and then slowly disappeared as the feudalism was under the impaction of Western spiritual civilization. The custom was prevailing as before in the Republican period. Some rich and powerful families were faithful proponents, including the military leader Chiang Kai-shek.

South Korean ...
... actress Jung Da Bin hanged herself at her boyfriend's home at her twenty six four years ago. Her mother could not bear the sorrow that her daughter passed away without marrying. She recently picked a deceased Korean actor as her daughter's ghost husband. At the wedding ceremony held at a famous temple in Gyeonggi Korea on May 22 2011, their cremains were buried together. The "groom" was five years older and died suddenly because of an unknown disease in 2002.

According to information from the Korean Family Association, ghost marriage is usually held in a temple. So long as horoscopes of the "groom" and "bride" match with each other, and permitted by both families, then the ghost wedding could be held. The wedding goes in an order of picking an auspicious time, holding the wedding, expelling the evil spirit, burning the remains, and finally burying both the cremains together. Though it is not widespread currently in Korea, there still are similar websites of "ghost marriage singles community". Only a formal photo of the dead and your household certificate transcript are required, and then you can look for a ghost partner.

It must be the most beautiful bridal wedding dress I've ever seen!