MY KIND OF FUNERAL

China has toxic smog, a massive stock and real estate bubble, the worst corruption in the world, dreadful poverty for hundreds of millions, and an economy in freefall. But they are focused on stopping strip shows at funerals. It sounds like their priorities are misplaced. I certainly would be more likely to go to the funeral of someone I didn’t care for, if I got to see a strip show. I think this is a great business concept. I’ll be contacting llpoh to bankroll my new business venture. Stuck could be our pimp.

China cracks down on funeral striptease

Published: Apr 24, 2015 1:26 a.m. ET

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HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — In rural China, funerals often feature young women performing a striptease for the guests, seen as a way to get more people to attend. But as common as the practice is, the government isn’t happy about it.

The Ministry of Culture announced Thursday on its website that it will launch a strict crackdown on the “illegal but common” strip shows at countryside funerals, as such shows “degrade social values.”

The ministry said its push had already resulted in two raids on such funerals, with police detaining the events’ managers and charging them with “organizing obscene shows,” punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

A Wednesday report by the Beijing News newspaper said in some rural areas, people use “sexy and stimulating” entertainment to draw more guests to the funeral and as a way to indicate family prosperity.

Nor are such shows tame — funeral striptease services typically cost over 2,000 yuan ($320) per show, often a high price for a rural family, and the groups offering these shows compete with each other by “pushing the limit” in order to drum up future business, according to a 2006 special video report by China’s Central Television.

A report by the Tencent Holdings news-portal site earlier this week criticized the practice as representing a “culture deficit” in rural China due to a lack of other cultural and recreational activities. It also blamed local officials for giving “tacit permission” for such illegal shows.


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DC Sunsets

The customs of other peoples never cease to perplex me.

I wonder what of the customs I observe perplexes them?

Welshman
Welshman

Stucky as a funeral strip pimp is a great idea, since when not shoveling snow, has too much time on his hands.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Why do articles like this seem more like Onion articles than Onion articles seem like Onion articles any more?

Stucky

I’m already TBP Pimp Man …. seeing how you’re ALL my bitches. Heh.

I don’t see the point of stripping at a funeral. I mean, the guy is already stiff.

MuckAbout

Two things I do not attend. One is weddings and the other is funerals.

Now – dammit – I may have to start making exceptions to that if it catches on in ‘Murica!

MA

Bea Lever
Bea Lever

The Communist Chinese who slaughtered 68 million of their citizens and make the Nazi final solution look like amateurs, are worried that this will “degrade social values”. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Boy, things must have changed since the first half of the last century…….just sayin.

Chicago999444
Chicago999444

As I know many local Chinese people, and have attended a number of funerals for elderly Chinese people, I just can’t imagine this. My Chinese friends were appalled at the very idea.

The traditional Chinese funeral is very beautiful, dignified, and spiritual, and has no such vulgar elements as this in it. It is usually an open-casket funeral, with a Buddhist ceremony, very beautiful. Each guest then walks by the casket, gazes reverently at the deceased, and bows. Then, everyone helps load the flowers into the escort vehicle and the body is taken to the gravesite. At the funeral, and gravesite, there is usually a photo of the departed person. There is more ceremony at the grave-side, as all guests take a funeral from the “blanket” of flowers that lay on the casket, usually red and white roses, and each guest lays a flower from the blanket bouquet on the casket. Then, there is an invocation from the Buddhist priests and priestesses performing the service, as the casket is lowered into the grave. Often, each member of the immediate family will toss an item of personal clothing- a scarf, or jacket- into a wire basket, and the clothing is burned so that the spirits of the living can join that of the one who has passed. Then the grave is covered, then and there, and all the funeral flowers- and there are usually a lot of them- are lain on the fresh grave.

It sounds like all the worst aspects of a “free” capitalistic society- the vulgarity, shallowness, consumerism, and debt- have been adopted by “red” China, but none of the virtues- the freedom, the sense of responsibility, the inventiveness, or emphasis on self-determination and self-respect.

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