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While some customs may evoke curiosity, others deepen the spine-chilling atmosphere surrounding Chinese traditions. One such practice, ghost weddings, involves the marriage of deceased individuals to ensure they are united in the afterlife—a ceremony often clandestinely practiced in rural areas. Equally unsettling is the deep-rooted customs of hanging coffins, where the deceased are placed in sarcophagi suspended from cliffs, and corpse driving, where shamans guide bodies back to their burial sites. The alarming custom of tile jar burial, though now abolished, horrifically documented how children once buried their living parents, highlighting a historical moral decay.