Tag: Funeral
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THE CLEVELAND, COLUMBUS, CINCINNATI RAILWAY (CCC) PLAYED A ROLE IN ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S FUNERAL PROCESSION
According to the internet, the locomotive Nashville, owned by the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad (a predecessor of the CCC&I), pulled the funeral train while it traveled through Ohio. The timetable shows the train leaving Cleveland at midnight and arriving in Columbus at 7:30am, passing 22 towns along the way. This suggests that the CCC&I managed…
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Shi (personator)
The shi (Chinese: 尸; pinyin: shÄ«; Wade–Giles: sh’ih; lit. ‘corpse’) was a ceremonial “personator” who represented a dead relative during ancient Chinese ancestral sacrifices. In a shi ceremony, the ancestral spirit supposedly would enter the descendant “corpse” personator, who would eat and drink sacrificial offerings and convey messages from the spirit. James Legge, an early translator of the Chinese classics, described shi personation ceremonies as “grand family reunions where the…
