Believe it or not? A youth is said to have fallen sick recently after he had burnt a paper replica of an iPhone for his dead grandfather in conjunction with the annual Qing Ming (Chinese Tomb Festival).

According to his family members, the young man had told them that his dead grandfather had acknowledged receiving the IT tool, and since he did not know how to use it he wanted the youth to teach him.

The youth is said to have suffered a fright from his dream, and fell sick thereafter.His family members said they then consulted a medium, and following prayers and burning of some paper money, the youth is said to be feeling better now.

One of the family members, who requested anonymity, said the youth had returned to his workplace in Singapore after he felt better, and swore that he would never again lay hands on such items in future Qing Ming.

The incident might sound ridiculous, but similar tales have emerged during every Qing Ming as families burned modern ‘IT tools’ for their dead ancestors.

One housewife, who also wanted to remain anonymous, said she was unsure whether to believe in such tales, “but for the sake of peace and harmony in the family, I forbid my children to burn such modern items for the dead ancestors”.

清明熱詞：“紙iPhone”成清明祭品

A coffee shop owner in Sibu Jaya said he had been following the tradition of burning items during Qing Ming, “but our family only burns paper money”.He said this was being done in accordance with the teachings of the Chinese Dao Religion, in which only the burning of paper money was mentioned.

“The practice has been commercialised in the modern days when traders start selling other items for burning, like boats, houses, mansions, motorcycles, luxury cars, maids, shoes, cigarettes, and, now, the IT items.”

He said this also happened during Christmas when profit-oriented parties churn out attractive figures of Santa Clause and promoted food like ginger bread and Christmas pudding, the items of which had nothing to do with the spirituality of the celebration.

【新聞快訊】清明節(jié)是華人慎終追遠的日子，但是馬來西亞越州有一名20多歲青年，早前拜山時將紙扎iPhone燒給爺爺，豈料“科技盲”的爺爺報夢，向他查問手機操作功能，嚇到他一病不起。

青年在爺爺墳前，將紙扎iPhone火化，沒料到當晚入睡后，竟夢到爺爺現(xiàn)身說收到iPhone，卻不會使用，要孫兒教他如何使用。雖然爺爺?shù)摹皥髩簟睕]有惡意，但由于夢中對話內容太真實，讓青年非常驚嚇，之后更病了數(shù)天。家人決定給爺爺再燒金銀衣紙，青年才恢復精神。

有網友調侃，燒IPhone不燒充電器，怎么給祖先用，一定要配套。也有網友笑稱說，燒下去，老人家不會用啊，不用擔心，喬布斯下去教祖先們使用了。