A Crackdown on Chinese Superstition

In china, people burn paper replicas of warm clothes on city pavements and in village courtyards. It's intended as a reminder that deceased loved ones are also feeling the cold in the after life. At funerals, many chinese people burnimi bank notes and paper models of goods they believe the departed may need. But such superstitions are not favored by china's communist party,. In some parts of the country, it has looked to suppress them.