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title: 'Chinese “Funeral Baked Meats”'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Augustus Ward Loomis'
date: 1869-07-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Non-Christian Religions and Beliefs'
- 'Travelogues'
scriptures:
- 'Genesis 3'
- 'Ecclesiastes 4'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/loomis-1869-chinese-funeral-baked-meats
---

# Chinese “Funeral Baked Meats”

1869 travelogue describing Chinese funeral customs—wailing mourners, offerings and burning paper goods for ancestors, burial rites—set amid Southern US travel scenes and reflections on death.

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