China wants to restrict 'funeral strippers'

- Strippers at a funeral. It is so common in China that the government has started a new campaign to eradicate this phenomenon. Especially in the countryside, the spicy funerals are very popular.

Previously, in 2006 and 2015, attempts were also made to limit the 'funeral strippers', but without too much success. Meanwhile, a special 'hotline' has been created in nineteen Chinese regions so that people can report these spicy funerals, reports the Mirror.

Chinese families use strippers for funerals to attract more mourners. That is good for the family's prestige. However, the Chinese government is talking about illegal practices that affect 'social morals'.

Previous campaigns did not yield anything. Now the Chinese government is targeting nineteen areas in four provinces: Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu and Hebei.

When people call the hotline and report 'noticeable' funerals, they receive a financial reward. That reward must draw doubts over the line.

In 2015, the Chinese government drew up a black list of people and organizations that provide stripteases for funerals. A dance group got it hard after a violent strip act at a funeral in a small village in Hebei. A member of the group then had to spend fifteen days in jail and pay a fine of about 9,000 euros.