Giant, colorful joss sticks in the shape of dragons are burned on sidewalks all over Singapore, where three-quarters of its 3.3 million residents are ethnic Chinese.
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The teachers allegedly lit candles and joss sticks and forced 61 students to pierce their fingers with needles, mix the blood with water, and drink it.
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After lighting candles and three joss sticks and making a wish, they will gently place their " krathongs " on the water and let them drift away.
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Early this week, a passer-by found her body _ naked and without arms _ on a concrete slab at the cemetery, with joss sticks and matches nearby.
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Giant, colorful joss sticks in the shape of dragons are burned on sidewalks all over Singapore, where three-quarters of its 3 . 3 million residents are ethnic Chinese.
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According to Chinese custom and tradition, people worshipping ancestors at Chinese cemeteries or columbariums must first lay out their offerings and prayer items before burning the joss stick.
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They said the worst, started by a joss stick, killed a woman and her four children in Chiayi, 194 kilometers ( 120 miles ) south of the capital, Taipei.
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The pagoda is filled with large gilded statuary of the Buddha, attended day and night by worshipers carrying joss sticks and offerings of fruit and meat, sometimes whole roasted pigs.
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In addition to public ceremonies, the ordained perform funeral services for the deceased and such traditional Chinese practices as the use of Joss Stick divination and consultation for auspicious days.
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Indeed, the novel's title _ " An Incense Burner into Which Everyone Plants a Joss Stick " _ is an explicit Taiwan metaphor for a prostitute, or a sexually aggressive woman.
