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Most Chinese funerals in Malaysia blend Confucian, Buddhist and Taoist traditions with folk belief, and the basic sequence is similar…

Buddhist and Christian funerals each rest on their own beliefs and follow their own order. In Buddhist tradition, death is…

On the day of a funeral, many Chinese families follow a few traditional arrangements. When the coffin is closed, pregnant…

After a funeral, one of the questions families ask most is which days come next. In short, many Chinese families…

Many Chinese families follow the idea of "deities first, then ancestors" (先神后祖). At home, they pray first to the Jade…

During the mourning period (shou xiao, 守孝), many Chinese families traditionally step back from celebrations: they may not attend others'…

Readers often ask what to do when no one at home is able to keep up ancestor worship. With children…

Yes. An ancestor who was buried can be exhumed through jian gu (捡骨, "gathering the bones", also called shi jin…

An ancestral tablet (shen zhu pai, 神主牌) can be kept on a home altar or placed in a columbarium, temple…

What many people call our "duties to ancestors" comes down to remembering and caring: looking after the place where a…