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Liang tokek of the Toraja people at the Londa Nanggala Cave in Sulawesi. Hanging coffins (liang tokek, literally "hanging burial") is one of the funerary practices of the Toraja people of Sulawesi, either for primary or secondary burials. The distinctively boat-shaped coffins, known as erong, are always placed below overhanging parts of the ...
Monument to Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai near the Tombe di Giulietta in Verona, Italy. The concerto is in one movement, but is broken into seven distinct sections. Each tells a different part of the story of the Butterfly Lovers. Some of the melodies come from the Chinese Opera of the same name or from traditional Chinese folk songs. The solo ...
In his funeral, Vaughan Williams conducted music by Holst and himself. [66] In 2009, the 75th anniversary of Holst's death, the old memorial was replaced by a new oval-shaped memorial. It bears an inscription from Holst’s The Hymn of Jesus: "The heavenly spheres make music for us". [67] Vladimir Horowitz: 1989 Pianist Cimitero Monumentale ...
A string of clay Ban Liang (半兩) cash coins discovered at the Mawangdui site in Changsha, Hunan. Chinese burial money (traditional Chinese: 瘞錢; simplified Chinese: 瘗钱; pinyin: yì qián) a.k.a. dark coins (traditional Chinese: 冥錢; simplified Chinese: 冥钱; pinyin: míng qián) [1] [2] are Chinese imitations of currency that are placed in the grave of a person that is to be buried.
Dancing Pallbearers, also known by a variety of names, including Dancing Coffin, Coffin Dancers, Coffin Dance Meme, or simply Coffin Dance, is the informal name given to a group of pallbearers from Nana Otafrija Pallbearing and Waiting Service who are based in the coastal town of Prampram in the Greater Accra Region of southern Ghana, although they perform across the country as well as outside ...
The sounds of sobbing, prayers and anguish echoed through the departures hall of an airport in southwestern South Korea on Monday as families of the victims aboard a passenger jet that crash ...
In 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the song became the subject of the "Coffin Dance" internet meme, which involves the remix playing over a group of Ghanaian men dancing while carrying a coffin. This was a common funeral tradition in Ghana and parts of Africa with the idea of sending off deceased loved ones in style, rather than in the ...
Dr Liang Wern Fook (Chinese: 梁文福; pinyin: Liáng Wénfú; born 1964 in Singapore) is a Cantonese Singaporean writer, musician, singer and researcher in Chinese literature and pedagogy. He was one of the pioneer figures in xinyao (Singaporean Chinese folk songs ) movement in the 1980s and 1990s.