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Red paper stickers

• Red Dot

  29 Nov 08, 20:36

  I often come across red paper stickers pasted along lift lobby and staircase landing of HDB flats whenever someone passes away. What is the function of such stickers and what is the reason for doing so?

• Pentaxdude90

  29 Nov 08, 21:08

  

• Fantagf

  29 Nov 08, 21:10

  Red signifies auspicious.   Whenever there is any dead in a family, according to chinese belief it is suay.  So the family of the demise pastes red sticker/red paper around the lift area to ward of the suay.

• Red Dot

  29 Nov 08, 21:15

  paste along lift and staircase for wat use?

• SexyChin

  29 Nov 08, 21:28

  To ward off evil. For more information, http://books.google.com/books?id=j1GUdyBpfwcC&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=red+paper+in+singapore+funeral&source=bl&ots=-H1xStf07q&sig=x4lrRf6UiDvghpodc34ulFqzx3A&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result

• Master -_-

  29 Nov 08, 21:32

  not to let the spirit know where it lives..put at the lift to remind it that this is the block lor

• Red Dot

  29 Nov 08, 21:36

  not to let the spirit knows and then use sticker to remind? huh

• Uraniumfish

  29 Nov 08, 23:57

  Put the red sticker to show everyone theres a dead man in the block.