If she dies before marriage her spirit cannot even be venerated by her own family and her soul will be exposed to a precarious situation, which is why Chinese ghost stories so often feature female ghosts.
所以一般傳說的鬼故事中，女鬼出現機會較多。父母當然心疼自己的骨肉，不忍她變成孤伶之鬼，可將牌位送至「菜廟」（閩南地區稱供奉夭折女孩的靈堂）。