Folding Table (Che-Sang) for Memorial Service
Cleveland Museum of Art

Folding Table (Che-Sang) for Memorial Service

1900s

pine nut wood
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The belief in two types of souls, the spiritual and the corporeal, embodied the core concept of ancestral worship in traditional China and Korea. While the corporeal soul is believed to reside in the tomb, the spiritual soul, in the spirit house, guards his or her decedents.

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