Paper dentures have become a popular new item among ethnic Chinese Malaysians celebrating “Qingming,” a festival when replica offerings are burnt to honor the dead, a report said last week.
Paper money, luxury cars and clothes are standard items at prayer shops catering to people marking the April 4 festival, also known as “tomb-sweeping day.”
But the Star newspaper said that paper dentures had now been added to the list of things going up in smoke, along with replica luxury handbags, exercise treadmills and snooker tables.
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Shopkeeper Leong Yoke Ping told the newspaper there had been a good response to the false teeth, which were on sale in her shop for the first time this year.
“My father wore dentures and it was his habit to wash them every night,” one customer told the Star. “This is just my way to remember him.”(AFP)
上週一則報導指出，紙紮假牙已成為馬來西亞華人「清明」祭祖的新熱門商品；清明節這天人們會燒複製祭品紀念祖先。
紙紮用品店的紙錢、豪華房車和衣飾都是四月四日清明節（又稱掃墓節）的熱賣商品。
但據《星報》報導，紙紮假牙現在也成為「熱門必燒商品」之一，此外還有名牌手提包、健身跑步機和撞球桌。
店主梁玉萍（音譯）對該報表示，今年是她第一次賣紙紮假牙，結果顧客反應良好。
一位顧客對《星報》說：「我父親（生前就）戴假牙，他習慣每天晚上清潔假牙。我藉著這個方式懷念他。」（法新社╱翻譯：袁星塵）
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