Creepy Chinese Marriage Ritual

this is a

traditional chinese ghost marriage. Meaning one is a

human while the other is a cropse. Does this picture

and story really gives people the creeps? Not really

for me, just abit uneasy maybe.



Here is how the story goes...it was originally

written in chinese and im thankful for the translation

into english.



My History teacher did a search, and indeed, the

photo was real. It??belonged to the 1920s, a village

in China . The girl was only 17. She came from a well

off family, and with the power of money, she managed

to get the boy of her dreams. He was 19, and was quite

popular among the girls given his good looks.



They were engaged, but the marriage was not

consummated, or rather, the official wedding rituals

were not performed yet, and the girl died from a high

fever in 1922. The boy had no wish to go through the

traditional wedding rites for the dead, and he decided

to run away and join the army.



But as mentioned, the girl came from a rich and

powerful family, and her family members managed to get

him back, and the boy was forced to attend the wedding

rites with the dead girl.



The photo was taken in the early evening, when she

was already dead for 6 days. They had to prop her body

up with a wooden plank, so as to hold her up. Notice

that her feet were not touching the ground fully? And

also, the 2 rows of Chinese characters, one row was

carved outwards, which was said to be meant for the

dead.



They said that if you were to stare at the photo

longer, and if the girl were to smile back at you, bad

things are said to befall on you. This was because the

boy was not willing to go through the rites, however,

he was poor, and he could not do much that time. The

girl loved him deeply, and kind of forced him into

engagement.



Creepy? u decide it yourself....i didn't feel or see

her smiling back at me anyway....