[ **up: [[Manners and customs--China]] | [[Death and dying]]** ] --- # Death and dying (China) ## History [[2025-0405. 'All the evidence indicates that the roof is connected to ideas about the beyond.'|’In many places, including southern China, three tiles are removed from the roof in order to ease the passing of the dying person. This allows his or her soul to take flight …’]][^1] [^1]: Claude Lecoueux, *[[Lecouteux. 'The Tradition of Household Spirits', 2000.|The Tradition of Household Sprits: Ancestral Lore and Practices]]*, trans. by Jon E. Graham (Rochester, VA: Inner Traditions, 2000), p. 39.