However, in Chinese popular belief, Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism are all mixed together. On the one hand, then, people can believe in reincarnation, yet simultaneously accept that they must worship their ancestors and meet their needs as if their ancestral ghosts will always be around the living.
然而中國的民間信仰，儒釋道混雜融合，一般雖認為人死後會重新投胎，卻還要祭拜祖先，好像祖先永遠與生人同在，需要供養。