00:00:04the who’s the who’s mean to unbury their
00:00:09grandmother clean her bones then bury
00:00:12her again in the family pagoda where her
00:00:14spirit will be reunited with her loved
00:00:16ones
00:00:16it’s an ancient sacred ritual called
00:00:19second burial in Taiwan many families
00:00:24dig up their dead and bury them a second
00:00:26time often to consolidate ancestral
00:00:29remains at one sacred site wishing to
00:00:33honor their grandmother with a second
00:00:35burial the Hoos call in professionals
00:00:37the Wang family
00:00:43the Wong’s meet the Hoos at the
00:00:45graveyard on a day do you best buy a
00:00:47geomancer an expert in she was long
00:00:49resting places for the dead at
00:00:53grandmother’s grave father and sons
00:00:55start the heavy work in the United
00:01:03States when the person dies is a time
00:01:06for grief when we pick the bones of the
00:01:09deceased is different people are in
00:01:16because picking the bones means to
00:01:19refurbish the body of the deceased and
00:01:21to move into a new residence the grave
00:01:29is opened and swept until every piece of
00:01:31bone is found and tagged at the Wang
00:01:36family headquarters the Hoos select an
00:01:38urn for grandmother’s bones for now her
00:01:41remains will take a place in the line of
00:01:43bones waiting to be cleaned the Wang
00:01:47brothers get to work on the backlog of
00:01:49other clients bones first they clean the
00:01:56bones of dirt and flesh and reassemble
00:01:59the skeleton every phase of bone
00:02:02cleaning has a reason and meaning rooted
00:02:04in tradition
00:02:05if the rituals aren’t followed precisely
00:02:08the ancestors could become angry and
00:02:11take it out on the living paint is mixed
00:02:14with wine to symbolically reflection
00:02:17clothed the spirit at last the Wong’s
00:02:21pack the bones in an urn after her bones
00:02:27are cleaned grandmother who won’t leave
00:02:29the Wang storehouse right away it may be
00:02:32months before geomancer chooses an
00:02:34auspicious day for her second burial
00:02:36when her urn would be placed in the
00:02:38pagoda mr. who built exclusively for his
00:02:40family
00:02:41oh yeah Ethan can you believe that
00:02:45so we have the luxury of living in a
00:02:47nice home then we should provide our
00:02:49ancestors a better place to live – how
00:02:53you did my gosh with a full heart mr.
00:02:58who will soon lay his grandmother to
00:02:59rest again and fulfill his sacred duty
00:03:02to the dead
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