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Chinese (Asian) funeral rituals


My father was at a funeral of a friend and there when he has at the end of a small red note came with a card and (probably) get Chinese characters on it. The envelope itself was in addition to the card has a 1 euro coin, a strawberry candy, and a thread.

Now I'm curious what it's all about and hope you can help me with explanations.

The deceased was Vietnamese, but his wife is Chinese and is so far I know the country. The funeral was the pastor of the Chinese Christian community carried out on site. There were rituals that may seem to Western Europeans tend to be less chistlich, but I think there are probably old and new (formerly pagan and Christian) traditions mixed.

I have asked Google and discovered that the color red in China is generally positive and stands for happiness. Therefore, it is also often greeting cards or letters from positive in red envelopes. So that explains the red card and the envelope (though I still do not know what is actually on it). Then I also discovered that as a tradition at funerals thailändishe guests a thread is given. We should fix this in itself, or his clothing and he protects by a warning that the death of one obsolete. It is a kind of good luck and protection in one. Possibly. yes it has the same meaning?

guess when strawberry candy I want so much the taste plays a role, as the color red, but why there is this general, I do not know. The same is true of the coin. Is it possibly to the purchase of death in the afterlife or for the ferryman (and yes, the more the Greek mythology is). Or is it just a promise riches in life?

I've read several times that you get at the end of funerals gifts that have something to do personally with the dead, but the things mentioned are so general that I can not imagine that this is not to general tradition or superstition is general. While I realize that here may mix local traditions, known only to those who have lived there, where, for example, the wife of the deceased grew up, but I thought you could ask again.

I'm curious about your responses (proposals).