Burning Money

We arrived in Taiwan during ghost month -- it is a time to honor ancestors, not your own, but those who have died without relatives to remember them. If you respect the lonely dead, they won't come and haunt you for the rest of the year. Instead, they will bless you with good luck and fortune.
How do you pay your respects? You set up shrines of delicious food, rice and fruits and flowers, and you light a fire and all day long, toss in bundles of money. This money is printed, pink with golden foil, on manila paper, and we've seen whole store fronts just selling stacks of money. Here's McKinley getting her one-cent in!