They don’t use real ones but they just use fake paper ones...

In China there is a tradition when you bury the dead that you offer something up for them by means of burning at the graveside. So for example let’s say you decided you wanted to give your dearly departed wealth in the next life you would burn some paper money at his graveside or if you wanted to give him a beautiful wife in his next life you would burn the image of a pretty woman.

Well times are moving and things change but not that much. Millions of Chinese people still carry on this old tradition of burning things by the graveside except these days they tend to burn different things. One thing that is very popular now to be burned at the graveside is Viagra! They don’t use real ones but they just use fake paper ones and they are burned at the graves of people who have just died so that in the next life they will have healthy sex lives and good sexual function and so that they will not suffer from erectile dysfunction.

When you arrive at a cemetery in China in the same way that people in Europe are sold flowers to put on the graves, in China you can be sold an assortment of different things to burn at the graveside and the paper Viagra is becoming a big seller all over China. Once a year the Chinese people hold a Tomb Sweeping Festival which falls on April 5th this year in which families go to tend the graves of the departed family members and this is when business for the people selling paper objects at cemeteries is particularly brisk.

Not everyone in China views this practice law of buying paper Viagra for offerings as a good idea and the Beijing Morning Post said that there should be a clamp down on the sale of these paper Viagra tablets at graveside as it was undignified and made of mockery of the seriousness of respecting the dead.