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Noun Concept
Categories: Anthropology of religion, Necromancy, Practices in Chinese folk religion, Religious behaviour and experience, Death customs
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shi
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The shi was a ceremonial "personator" who represented a dead relative during ancient Chinese ancestral sacrifices. Wikipedia
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The shi was a ceremonial "personator" who represented a dead relative during ancient Chinese ancestral sacrifices. Wikipedia
A ceremonial "corpse" involved in early forms of ancestor worship in China Wikipedia Disambiguation
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idol
ancestor worship
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Book of Rites
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shi (personator)
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Shi

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