纸房子--时代的歌之119lemooljiang (73)in #cn • 8 years ago 房子， 车子， 票子， 都烧了寄给他， 虽然都是纸的， 只为了另一世的谎言。 @lemooljiang #songofera #songofera #poetry #writing
我的翻译很难把这首诗译成英文。
Both of my translators have a hard time translating this poem into English.
It has Chinese context, some of the habits in the west is not, so the translation is very difficult.
它有中国的语境，有些习惯在西方是没有的，所以翻译难度很高的。
我想我理解了95％
Have a read at this on wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_money
It's a Chinese practice to “transmit" monetary and material things to the love ones who have pass on by burning paper money and other material.