打生桩

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 打生桩 – see 打生樁 (“to bury someone alive under a pile during constructions, which was believed to be able to calm disturbed ghosts and thus prevent accidents during construction”). (This term, 打生桩, is the simplified form of 打生樁.)
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

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