A UNIQUE WEDDING.
- -- A wedding of the dead has been performed at Peking before the bereaved Chinese parents of the bride and bridegroom. A rice merchant, Hu Chang, whose son died recently, .agreed to the ceremony being performed with the dead daughter of his neighbour, as the couple had been engaged since childhood. After the wedding they were burU ed in the same grave.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15129, 21 February 1922, Page 6
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64A UNIQUE WEDDING. Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15129, 21 February 1922, Page 6
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