How did China Mingbi become popular abroad?Overseas bloggers and e-commerce companies rely on it to make a difference and the price is not cheap
August 22 is the Zhongyuan Festival. Burning paper money for the deceased relatives is a reserved item for the Zhongyuan Festival. However, it may be difficult for you to imagine that the Mingbi issued by the “Heaven and Earth Bank” has become popular in foreign countries.
I don’t know when it started, Mingbi became popular, and there is a special English name in foreign countries: ancestor money (ancestor money). In addition, there are other nicknames such as joss paper, ghost money, spirit money, hell money, etc.
Many live broadcast bloggers and Internet celebrities overseas rely on Xiu Ming coins to give tens of thousands of likes every minute. And the price is not cheap. Take the Amazon platform as an example. Generally speaking, a stack of 80 coins costs 5.99 yuan, which is almost equivalent to 50 cents per RMB.
According to the introduction of foreign e-commerce companies, this coin allows the deceased to get what they need and live better there. Click on the buyer’s comments, and you can also see the stories of the believing men and their ancestors.
Regardless of whether these comments are true or just made up stories, Mingbi has become popular overseas inexplicably, and versions in different currencies have appeared.
How popular is Mingbi? If you just search the Internet, you will find a lot of dedicated video lectures to teach you how to burn paper money. In addition to the coins, the paper villas, paper cars, three-piece cell phones and even paper airplanes that are commonly used in Chinese ancestor worship are also popular.
Data from the cross-border e-commerce platform AliExpress shows that the buyers of Chinese sacrificial supplies cover people from all over the world such as Russia and the United States. Almost European countries have orders, including Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. , Greece, etc., in addition to online shopping users in Mauritius, Egypt, Israel and other places.
Unexpectedly, while Chinese people have begun to remember civilization and “electronic sacrifices”, foreigners are walking the old path of “feudal superstition”. Expressing their memory of their ancestors in the WeChat family group and expressing their sorrows have become a sacrifice method for many people in China today.
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