A show of wealth or filial duty
A photo is worth more than a thousand words indeed!
There is a Chinese saying "祭之丰，不如养之薄也" (A rich praying is not as good as treating less well while alive. Hope the mother is also well treated before passing away.)
Look at the photos and make your own judgement.
The title of the 3 photos is "Dearly departed for three million yuan".
A fleet of Lincoln limousines are seen during a funeral in Wenling, East China's Zhejiang province, March 4, 2011. Insiders said a local entrepreneur wanted to give his mother an extravagant funeral so he hired nine Lincoln limousines, a drum corps of thousands of people, and a 16 gun salute at a cost of around three million yuan ($460,000). [Photo/CFP]
A fleet of Lincoln limousines are seen during a funeral in Wenling, East China's Zhejiang province, March 4, 2011. [Photo/CFP]
A view of the large crowd during an extravagant three million yuan funeral in Wenling, East China's Zhejiang province, March 4, 2011. [Photo/CFP]
