China's parliament rules out allowing same-sex marriage #jakpost https://t.co/Mk62DvSMEQ— The Jakarta Post (@jakpost) August 21, 2019
KEVIN ZHANG: Ridiculous, disgusting
"#Taiwan is an inalienable part of #China’s territory," says Dai Yuming, interim chargé d’affaires at China’s Embassy in #Israel https://t.co/wDIGjzEPFi
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) October 19, 2021
John D.: In a Buddhist context, the staff is a pilgrim's staff or a monk's staff, which the deceased will use on his journey. In the folk tradition, the staff may represent fertility (phallic?) or generational continuity (which, after all, depends on fertility), or it may offer a kind of companionship to the deceased in his grave. Sometimes the staff is stuck straight up on top of the grave mound, making it a kind of lightning rod to attract the spirit or gods. The staff then also mimics the chopsticks stuck into the rice.












































