If a family wishes to arrange a ghost marriage, they may consult with a matchmaker of sorts : In a Cantonese area of Singapore " there is in fact a ghost marriage broker's sign hung up in a doorway of a Taoist priest's home.
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If a family wishes to arrange a ghost marriage, they may consult with a matchmaker of sorts : In a Cantonese area of Singapore " there is in fact a ghost marriage broker's sign hung up in a doorway of a Taoist priest's home.
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In season 2 of " The Blacklist ", ghost marriage is a central theme of Episode 20 ( " Quon Zhang, No . 87 " ) when a blacklister smuggles bodies of deceased women and prepares them for afterlife with a marriage ceremony for the sons of grieving clients.
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In Lisa See's novel " Peony in Love " ( New York : Random House, 2007 ), set in 17th century China, the protagonist, Peony, dies at 16 and is later the bride in a ghost marriage to a poet she fell in love with during life.
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One observable difference in a ghost marriage is that the ancestral tablet of the deceased is placed inside the effigy, so that " the bride's dummy [ is ] animated with the ghost that [ is ] to be married ", and then placed with the groom's family's tablets at the end of the marriage festivities.
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Chinese ghost marriage was usually set up by the family of the deceased and performed for a number of reasons, including the marriage of an engaged couple before one member's death, to integrate an unmarried daughter into a patrilineage, to ensure the family line is continued, or to maintain that no younger brother is married before an elder brother.
