Burning boat for spirit of Dowager Empress of China

Making a vessel of smoke for a dead Empress: burning the boat designed to carry the spirit of the late Empress Dowager Cixi of China across the river separating it from the heavenly Nirvana. The boat was built of bamboo covered with silk paper and was sumptuously carved and fitted out

Cixi Dowager Funerals Heavenly Nirvana Rite Rites Rituals Separating Spiritual

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