The Sacred Tree at Fushun, China, 1936.

This is a photograph of the "Sacred Tree on an otherwise modern street. Around it are tied red cloths and upon it are hung testimonials of the tree's efficasy. A small amount of incense is burned before it by those who look to it for supernatural aid to cure their ills.; The dead are believed to hover over this tree for some time after their spirits have left their earthly bodies. And so we see some, on the day a relative dies led by professional mourners to the tree where they conduct a ceremony of worship for the spirit of the dead."