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What are the names of things Chinese people bring when they visit a cemetery (to visit a dead relative)?

I mean, I know what they are, but I don’t know the English names.

There’s long, skinny sticks with wax stuck on half of it for burning (a type of candle)

the same sticks without wax that give off a smell when the end is set on fire

Folded little things of gold and silver paper that look like ships (in my opinion) that are thrown in a tiny cauldron, that get burned when someone throws a lighted match in

And little pots of sand, dirt, and gravel.

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An Unknown Location | 2 months, 1 week ago (15 hours, 31 minutes after post)

The sticks that burn that gives off a smell are called incense. I’m not sure what the rest of the things are exactly but direct translation of all of it would simply be “Prayer things”. I’m not sure if that helps, and those folded little things that look like ships represent money.

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