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English: Honarary poles in front of a temple, mark medieval era "widow suicide" in China (page 223-227, Lion and Dragon in Northern China), a practice similar to the Indian sati.

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Title: Lion and dragon in northern China
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Johnston, Reginald Fleming, Sir, 1874-1938
Subjects: Weihaiwei
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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SUICIDE OF WIDOWS 225 There is no doubt that the suicide of widows in China is a survival of the ancient custom (which flourished in countries so far apart as India and Peru, Africa and China) whereby wives and slaves were as a matter of ordinary duty expected to followtheir husbands and masters to the grave; and thoughthe day has probably long gone past when suchsuicides were encouraged or actually enforced by thedeceaseds relatives, it cannot be doubted that to thisday public opinion in China is strongly on the sideof the widow who chooses to follow her lord to theworld of ghosts.2 The present-day theory of the matter held by thepeople of eastern Shantung, including Weihaiwei,appears to be this. A woman undoubtedly performsa meritorious act in following her husband to the spirit world...

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