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On "Prosperity Money": Zhang: All the serial numbers (of the money) start with a 888, and none of them include the number 4. In, uh, Cantonese and most regional Chinese dialects, the word for "four" sounds like the Chinese word for "death." - So you're saying that they're counterfeit. Zhang: I'm saying they're prosperity notes, worth about 5 bucks to every dollar. === Apparently not fiction: http://www.moneyfactorystore.gov/luckymoney888set.aspx $1 Fortune Note ---> Price: $5.95 On "Ghost Marriages": When a family member dies, the surviving relatives are obligated to tend to that person's needs in the afterlife. And if they die unmarried, they'll find themselves alone on the other side. And unhappy spirits tend to come back and haunt their living relatives.