Back then, a ship used to sail from China to Japan and the Malaysian archipelago once or twice a year specially to carry the remains of the departed back to their homeland, a practice that continued even after the Second World War.
當時有專門接靈回鄉的船，一年一次或兩次，從大陸到南洋、經日本再回大陸，一直到二次大戰後，都還有過這樣的船。