- Title Pages
- Figures
- Charts
- Tables
- Foreword
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Introduction Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money -
Chapter 1 Some Occasional Rites Performed by the Singapore Cantonese -
Chapter 2 Chinese Rites for the Repose of the Soul, with Special Reference to Cantonese Custom -
Chapter 3 Paper Charms, and Prayer Sheets as Adjuncts to Chinese Worship -
Chapter 4 Ghost Marriages among the Singapore Chinese -
Chapter 5 Ghost Marriages among the Singapore Chinese: A Further Note -
Chapter 6 Chinese Women’s Vegetarian Houses in Singapore -
Chapter 7 Chinese Religion and Religious Institutions in Singapore -
Chapter 8 The Emergence and Social Function of Chinese Religious Associations in Singapore -
Chapter 9 The Great Way of Former Heaven: A Group of Chinese Secret Religious Sects -
Chapter 10 Chinese Religion and Rural Cohesion in the Nineteenth Century -
Chapter 11 The Role of Savings and Wealth among Hong Kong Chinese -
Chapter 12 Capital, Saving and Credit among Indigenous Rice Farmers and Immigrant Vegetable Farmers in Hong Kong’s New Territories -
Chapter 13 Some Basic Conceptions and Their Traditional Relationship to Society -
Chapter 14 Chinese Occasional Rites in Hong Kong -
Chapter 15 Notes on Some Vegetarian Halls in Hong Kong Belonging to the Sect of Hsien-T’ien Tao (The Way of Former Heaven) -
Chapter 16 Marriage Resistance in Rural Kwangtung -
Chapter 17 Chinese Traditional Ideas and the Treatment of Disease: Two Examples from Hong Kong -
Chapter 18 Cosmic Antagonisms: A Mother-Child Syndrome -
Chapter 19 Chinese and Western Medicine in Hong Kong: Some Social and Cultural Determinants of Variation, Interaction and Change -
Chapter 20 Chinese Traditional Aetiology and Methods of Cure in Hong Kong - Appendix
- Index
Ghost Marriages among the Singapore Chinese: A Further Note
Ghost Marriages among the Singapore Chinese: A Further Note
(1956)*
- Chapter:
- (p.101) Chapter 5 Ghost Marriages among the Singapore Chinese: A Further Note
- Source:
- Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore
- Author(s):
Marjorie Topley
, Jean DeBernardi- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
This chapter presents ceremonies which took place in a Dying House. The total cost of the marriage was approximately $200 Straits and a priest was engaged to see to the necessary arrangements. He was one of a small group of professionals belonging to a Cantonese branch of the Cheng I [Zhengyi] school of Taoism who earn their living in Singapore by performing at funeral ceremonies and at Cantonese occasional rites. The priest arranged for the “wedding” ceremony to be held in the temple, hired a room at the Dying House, bought or made all the necessary paraphernalia and together with his troupe of colleagues and disciples performed all the appropriate ceremonies. According to the Taoist priest in charge of the day's activities, Cantonese ghost marriages are still by no means rare in Singapore and he has been engaged to perform them by people, mainly women, of various occupations and income.
Keywords: Dying House, Cheng I, Zhengyi, Taoism, Singapore, Cantonese, ghost marriages
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- Title Pages
- Figures
- Charts
- Tables
- Foreword
-
Introduction Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money -
Chapter 1 Some Occasional Rites Performed by the Singapore Cantonese -
Chapter 2 Chinese Rites for the Repose of the Soul, with Special Reference to Cantonese Custom -
Chapter 3 Paper Charms, and Prayer Sheets as Adjuncts to Chinese Worship -
Chapter 4 Ghost Marriages among the Singapore Chinese -
Chapter 5 Ghost Marriages among the Singapore Chinese: A Further Note -
Chapter 6 Chinese Women’s Vegetarian Houses in Singapore -
Chapter 7 Chinese Religion and Religious Institutions in Singapore -
Chapter 8 The Emergence and Social Function of Chinese Religious Associations in Singapore -
Chapter 9 The Great Way of Former Heaven: A Group of Chinese Secret Religious Sects -
Chapter 10 Chinese Religion and Rural Cohesion in the Nineteenth Century -
Chapter 11 The Role of Savings and Wealth among Hong Kong Chinese -
Chapter 12 Capital, Saving and Credit among Indigenous Rice Farmers and Immigrant Vegetable Farmers in Hong Kong’s New Territories -
Chapter 13 Some Basic Conceptions and Their Traditional Relationship to Society -
Chapter 14 Chinese Occasional Rites in Hong Kong -
Chapter 15 Notes on Some Vegetarian Halls in Hong Kong Belonging to the Sect of Hsien-T’ien Tao (The Way of Former Heaven) -
Chapter 16 Marriage Resistance in Rural Kwangtung -
Chapter 17 Chinese Traditional Ideas and the Treatment of Disease: Two Examples from Hong Kong -
Chapter 18 Cosmic Antagonisms: A Mother-Child Syndrome -
Chapter 19 Chinese and Western Medicine in Hong Kong: Some Social and Cultural Determinants of Variation, Interaction and Change -
Chapter 20 Chinese Traditional Aetiology and Methods of Cure in Hong Kong - Appendix
- Index
