{"id":1348,"date":"2023-10-24T03:59:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/2023\/10\/24\/china-cracks-down-on-funeral-stippers\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T00:12:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:12:57","slug":"china-cracks-down-on-funeral-stippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/china-cracks-down-on-funeral-stippers\/","title":{"rendered":"China Cracks Down on “Funeral Stippers”"},"content":{"rendered":"

China has launched a fresh crackdown on funeral strippers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

China\u00a0has launched a fresh crackdown on funeral strippers.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Culture\u00a0said it would target\u00a0“obscene, pornographic and vulgar performances” at funerals and weddings.<\/p>\n

It followed reports in the state run\u00a0Global Times\u00a0news<\/a>paper about roaring crowds, applauding and cursing as women\u00a0performed at funerals.<\/p>\n

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Image: The Times<\/p>\n

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Beijing cracks down on ‘uncivilised’ funeral strippers<\/p>\n

The tabloid claimed that they sauntered into the crowd and rubbed mens\u00a0crotches, while occasionally reminding them not to take pictures.<\/p>\n

The culture ministry set up hotlines\u00a0to offer monetary rewards for those who report “funeral misdeeds” in 19 cities in Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu and Hebei provinces.<\/p>\n

Some rural communities in China believe hiring performers can increase attendance at funerals, with high attendance seen\u00a0as a way of honouring the deceased.<\/p>\n

In a bid to show off their disposable income and boost numbers, some households pay out more than their annual incomes for strippers, but also\u00a0actors, singers and\u00a0comedians,\u00a0the\u00a0Global Times\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n

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Image: Business Insider<\/p>\n

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Beijing first\u00a0banned funeral strippers in 2015, after two cases\u00a0where exotic dancers staged “obscene performances.”<\/p>\n

At the funeral in Hebei province, two strippers\u00a0\u201cwearing revealing clothes danced on a stage at a public square in our village at night,\u201d an eyewitness said at the time.<\/p>\n

Authorities also arrested six exotic dancers at the funeral of an elderly resident in Handan.<\/p>\n

Five people were detained in Jiangsu\u00a0in 2006 for “obscene performances” following striptease acts at a farmer’s funeral, where 200\u00a0people were said to have attended.<\/p>\n

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Image: China Times<\/p>\n

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One expert quoted in the\u00a0Global Times\u00a0report partly attributed the practice to fertility worship.<\/p>\n

“In some local cultures, dancing with erotic elements can be used to convey the deceased’s wishes of being blessed with many children,” Huang Jianxing, a university professor, said.<\/p>\n

“I don’t take the performances as ‘trash of traditional rural culture.’ It has an inheritance of local civilization,” he added.<\/p>\n

“Rather than simply decrying them, it is more important for the authorities to provide the rural people with finer cultural products.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China has launched a fresh crackdown on funeral strippers. China\u00a0has launched a fresh crackdown on funeral strippers. The Ministry of Culture\u00a0said it would target\u00a0“obscene, pornographic and vulgar performances” at funerals …","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[60,1052,353,1051,306,29,34,559,27,54,30,214],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-china","tag-china-cracks-down-on-funeral-stippers","tag-e-china-cities","tag-funeral-stippers","tag-hiredchina","tag-jobs","tag-jobs-in-china","tag-marketing","tag-news","tag-sales-manager","tag-shopping","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11823,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/11823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hiredchina.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}