Funeral strippers

[GeneChing]

Strippers and pole dancers perform at funeral services in rural Hebei



Funerals in rural Hebei province have been spiced up recently with the addition of strippers and pole dancers at services, reports Tencent.

Tales of this scandalous spectacle emerged following the recent Spring Festival, where people returned to their hometowns in the region and were startled to discover the new X-rated entertainment at funerals.



Apparently, hosts of these funerals decided they needed to lighten the sombre mood and would invite the adult performers onstage to cheer up the attending mourners once the funeral service was concluded.



They might not want to attract too much attention, however, given the crackdown on 'obscene' burial practices coming after a number of similarly smutty services in Jiangsu in 2006.
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By Shanghaiist in News on Mar 23, 2015 7:00 PM

I will never understand China

[GeneChing]

I posted a similar story last month on My-daughter-won-the-2013-International-Pole-Championship&p=1282046#post1282046. That might not have been totally appropriate because not all pole dancing involves stripping. So I'm placing this new one here. If another similar story appears, perhaps this will need its own thread.

Taiwan woman honors husband by inviting strippers to his funeral



In the latest of news which seems totally implausible and ethically irreconcilable, a devoted wife in Taiwan has fulfilled her husband's wishes to the end, putting aside her grief to invite strippers to perform at his funeral, reports Tencent.

Normally, promiscuously-dressed women strutting around and posing provocatively is not an image one would associate with the typically sober affair of a funeral; but this Taiwanese wife could think of no better way to pay homage to her husband.



Apparently, the woman organised the unorthodox entertainment to venerate her late husband's memory and let him feast his eyes from the afterlife, as during his time, he famously had a penchant for looking at beautiful women.



While we're not sure if this spectacle is a somewhat unhealthy but genuinely affectionate tribute to the woman's husband, or actually a symbol of spiteful irony mocking his wandering eye; it certainly is an incongruous sight for the normally solemn place of mourning.



That is not to say however, that it is a totally unfamiliar one. Last month, raunchy photos of strippers and pole dancers gyrating on stage from funeral services in rural Hebei revived the trend of erotic distractions at funerals which had been on a long hiatus following the crackdown on x-rated entertainment accompanying eulogies.

By Liam Bourke

[GeneChing]

So this now gets its own thread.

Chinese officials crack down on funeral strippers



Chinese officials have launched a campaign to put an end to striptease shows at funerals, because life is no fun and apparently death can't be either.

The Ministry of Culture said in a statement on Thursday that it was clamping down specifically on rural areas of China, where freaky R-rated funerals have become popular in recent years due to a 'general lack of cultural events'.

Shanghaiist has been reporting about the raunchy post-eulogy performances as far back as 2006, but more stories have been creeping out of the woodwork in just the past few months.

The ministry cited a case from last month in rural Hebei, where strippers and pole dancers were invited to a funeral service to cheer up mourners with some light erotic dancing. More recently, a widower in Taiwan made headlines for inviting strippers to shimmy about on stage and drape their barely-dressed bodies over her late husband's casket.

The striptease services are prevalent in rural areas, where people believe that it's a sign of honor for the deceased to have a funeral jam-packed with people. When the burial hymns and funeral marches just weren't cutting it anymore, people turned to strippers.

The shows "disrupt the order of the rural cultural market and corrupt the social atmosphere," the ministry said in its statement.

Chinese officials were also told to tone down their excessively extravagant funeral ceremonies in 2013 as part of Xi Jinping's anti-vice sweep, as the lavish affairs had become more about flaunting wealth and connections than, well, the dead person.

Better enjoy it while it lasts people, because in three shakes of a titty-tassel it'll be gone.

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By Katie Nelson in News on Apr 24, 2015 3:00 PM

[GeneChing]

There's an embedded NatGeo vid if you follow the link. Prolly worth the 2:29 min of your time because it gives more of the cultural background.

7:37 pm HKT Apr 23, 2015
China Says Please Stop Hiring Funeral Strippers

A screenshot of the saucy funeral in Hebei that attracted attention earlier this year.
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In China, friends and family of the deceased may have to do without a special form of funereal entertainment: strippers.

According to a statement from the Ministry of Culture on Thursday, the government plans to work closely with the police to eliminate such performances, which are held with the goal of drawing more mourners.

Pictures of a funeral in the city of Handan in northern Hebei province last month showed a dancer removing her bra as assembled parents and children watched. They were widely circulated online, prompting much opprobrium. In its Thursday statement, the Ministry of Culture cited “obscene” performances in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu, as well as in Handan, and pledged to crack down on such lascivious last rites.

In the Handan incident earlier this year, the ministry said, six performers had arrived to offer an erotic dance at the funeral of an elderly resident. Investigators were dispatched and the performance was found to have violated public security regulations, with the person responsible for the performing troupe in question detained administratively for 15 days and fined 70,000 yuan (about $11,300), the statement said. The government condemned such performances for corrupting the social atmosphere.

The government has been trying to fight the country’s funereal stripper scourge for some time now. In 2006, the state-run broadcaster China Central Television’s leading investigative news show Jiaodian Fangtan aired an exposé on the practice of scantily clad women making appearances at memorial services in Donghai in eastern China’s Jiangsu province.

The point of inviting strippers, some of whom performed with snakes, was to attract large crowds to the deceased’s funeral – seen as a harbinger of good fortune in the afterlife. “It’s to give them face,” one villager explained. “Otherwise no one would come.

CCTV found about a dozen funeral performance troupes offering such services in every village in the county, putting on as many as 20 shows a month at a rate of 2,000 yuan ($322) a pop.

“This has severely polluted the local cultural life,” CCTV intoned at the time, marveling at the sight of one women gyrating out of her clothes mere steps from a photo of the deceased. “These troupes only care about money. As for whether it’s legal, or proper, or what effect it has on local customs, they don’t think much about it.”

The mainland isn’t alone in its preference for the practice: similar ensemble performances are also popular in Taiwan – as National Geographic documented in 2012, with stilettoed, short-skirted women dancing graveside. The practice there dates back decades.

– Te-Ping Chen and Josh Chin

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Is it wrong to think this is awesome?

[GeneChing]

Is this what you want for your funeral, DJ? If so, let us know and we'll all take note here. We'll tell your family it's a Chinese tradition. Until that time...

Bizarre moment half-naked STRIPPERS dance provocatively around a man's coffin in an attempt to attract more mourners to a Chinese funeral

Two scantily clad women gyrate next to a man's coffin to Maroon 5
Lights flash in the background around a picture of the deceased
Trend in China to invite strippers to encourage more mourners to attend

By HARRIET MALLINSON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 10:12 EST, 31 July 2016 | UPDATED: 11:59 EST, 31 July 2016

Strippers and funerals are normally considered mutually exclusive - but not so at this bizarre ceremony.
Footage from a funeral in China shows two scantily clad women gyrating next to a man's coffin as they dance to Maroon 5's hit Moves Like Jagger.
Attending mourners eagerly film the scandalous scene as the strippers - dressed in bikini tops and knee-high leather boots - sashay around the casket.
Bizarre moment strippers perform at a funeral in China
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Footage from a funeral in China shows two scantily clad women gyrating next to a man's coffin as they dance to Maroon 5's hit Moves Like Jagger



Just as they might on a nightclub podium the pair flick their hair and provocatively shake their assets in an energised dance routine while lights flash from pink to green to blue, illuminating a picture of the deceased

Just as they might on a nightclub podium the pair flick their hair and provocatively shake their assets in an energised dance routine.
At one point they even drapes themselves seductively over the white coffin as though posing with the departed man - named only as Mr Jian.

In the background lights flash from pink to green to blue, illuminating a picture of the deceased.
It's believed that after a further three erotic performances to disco-worthy tracks, the coffin was moved elsewhere for a more dignified ceremony.
The video was released last year but has recently gone viral once again.
Strippers are invited to dance at funerals in China and Taiwan in the hopes of attracting more morners - with a higher numbers of attendees seen as reflecting a higher status.
At one point they even drapes themselves seductively over the white coffin as though posing with the departed man - named only as Mr Jian
It's believed that after a further three erotic performances to disco-worthy tracks, the coffin was moved elsewhere for a more dignified ceremony
At one point they even drapes themselves seductively over the white coffin as though posing with the departed man - named only as Mr Jian.

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