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dinner made mostly of leftovers from the banquet lunch

Date: 31 May 2008
Photographer: myrrhlin: gallery
Location: Wuhan, China: gallery
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before the meal

Date: 31 May 2008
Photographer: myrrhlin: gallery
Location: Wuhan, China: gallery
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compartments with ashes in the mausoleum

Date: 31 May 2008
Photographer: myrrhlin: gallery
Location: Wuhan, China: gallery
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burning fake money in front of the mausoleum

Date: 31 May 2008
Photographer: myrrhlin: gallery
Location: Wuhan, China: gallery
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burning the huaquan (paper wreaths) and (some) of the deceased's clothes

Date: 31 May 2008
Photographer: myrrhlin: gallery
Location: Wuhan, China: gallery
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walking down to the mausoleum

Date: 31 May 2008
Photographer: myrrhlin: gallery
Location: Wuhan, China: gallery
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waiting at the crematorium

Date: 31 May 2008
Photographer: myrrhlin: gallery
Location: Wuhan, China: gallery
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the special cart for transferring the ashes from crematorium to a waiting vehicle in a short procession

Date: 31 May 2008
Photographer: myrrhlin: gallery
Location: Wuhan, China: gallery
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waiting around at the crematorium. note the huaquan piled up in the bus (not ours).

Date: 31 May 2008
Photographer: myrrhlin: gallery
Location: Wuhan, China: gallery
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some early morning commuters startled by the burst of firecrackers thrown from the truck

Date: 31 May 2008
Photographer: myrrhlin: gallery
Location: Wuhan, China: gallery
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driving to the head of the funeral procession in the early morning traffic

Date: 31 May 2008
Photographer: myrrhlin: gallery
Location: Wuhan, China: gallery
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the procession has already left the home, and cleaning up has begun

Date: 31 May 2008
Photographer: myrrhlin: gallery
Location: Wuhan, China: gallery
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atrium of Wuhan historical museum

Date: 25 May 2008
Photographer: myrrhlin: gallery
Location: Wuhan, China: gallery
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A pottery model of a "pig toilet". There are stairs on the backside for climbing up into the little building. I saw things like this in museums four years ago. But no one knows enough to confirm the obvious conclusion: an elevated outhouse that dumps into a pig pen? And then you eat the pigs?