What is placed in the mouth of a dead person in Vietnam?
Correct answer: A pinch of rice and three coins
Greyghost69
Interesting customs for funerals and burial in different parts of the globe. Many have been unchanged for centuries.
Player #9442102
Player #96919, My Dad always said to put change in his pocket when he died because where he was going he might need change for a cold drink! We did! But I know he didn't need it.
Player #22987000
Why the coins?
Player #29226304
Player #22987000, the rice is so that he will eat in the afterlife and the coins are for a prosperous afterlife.
Player #96919
Player #22987000, maybe prosperity in the next life?
Player #6852065
Player #22987000, maybe for the toll bridge to the afterlife.
Blaguna
Player #22987000, in most cultures it's to pay the ferry man to bring you to the other side. Pagan traditions in many cultures still held up. Or to gain access to the underworld, a fee basically.
Player Elf Counsel
Teez7071, In Ancient Greece the coin was placed in the mouth to pay the ferryman, Charon, to take them over the River Styx. Coins on the eyes are merely to keep the lids. closed. And cremation was a Roman custom not Greek.
Uninitialized
Player #9442102, nope it's to pay the ferry man
Tipsy
Player #22987000, parking fees
Player #120374466
Interesting the saying: " we are born from the earth and will return to earth" agrees with the Holy Scriptures in Genesis 3:19 ..."from dust you are and to dust you will return."
TWeezyA
It’s so awesome and fascinating to learn all the different cultures & the different traditions we all have! My favorite classes in college were always my electives which I chose world religions & different years of eras of world history!
Alison
Yeeeeep!!!!! You gotta pay the ferry man (and maybe the rice in case he gets hungry)
Carla
Player Elf Counsel, Greece does not do cremation as of this date.
Vee
Player #29226304, thank you for explaining
Massa
Player #9442102, very funny 🤣
K.T
it's interesting to know bout different customs
Player #78645511
Akin to but not intoto of tradition followed in some of the Southern states of India.
Miao
we don't practise this in Vietnam. Maybe in ancient time.
jocelyn baldesco
Felipe, hehe
miss smarty-pants
Bilbo Baggins, we don't need to by r way into heaven, we need to know God as our personal savior!!
lisa
i don't know the answer but i choose it randamly and it's get rights.....💕💯💯
Rebecca
I think it's pretty weird
mkmsissy51
zante, what is a holy plant?
Fry
Player Elf Counsel, Ever wonder what Charon does with all those collected coins?
Telstar
When a person died, whatever ceremony/custom acts be done, nothing will change. Dead is dead.
Sameer
What's the purpose ?
Shane
Player #22987000, to bribe St Peter?
Chridege
This is really interesting but what are the coins for?
Bruce
Where do they get coins in Vietnam? Their currency is purely notes.
Player #49360832
so why do they do that? what does that signify?
baymax
think I prefer our way of cremation...
DrSM
Player #22987000, to pay the person who helps them cross over to the other side
zante
very interesting. I my culture we put some holy water and a leaf from a holy plant. in the mouth when a person dies.
Player #2512936
Player #22987000, While You are asking, why Chopstick, why Rice, why and which coins?
Luna
Anyone who chose the correct option because it was the randomest?😉😂