· Chinese Tourists in Conflict at Japanese Temple...Why did you put that in?
Nov 28, 2025
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Jijeon is made by cutting paper into the shape of money, mainly referring to the money used by the dead in the underworld in shamanism.
According to the Hong Kong media South China Morning Post, a video of an unidentified Chinese man putting his fortune into a fortune-telling box at a Sensoji temple is spreading online in China.
At Sensoji, visitors must pay 100 yen (about 900 won) to draw 100 fortune teller rods from bamboo barrels and receive omikuji (picker paper) that matches the number.
The man in the video picked No. 68 and received a fortune teller saying, `Chigi (吉, Gil-woon).' Before he took out the paper, he said "Japan's fortune-telling bars do not bless the Chinese. We have our own fortune teller," said the companion who filmed the video, adding that "Dying the Ghost."
Although the timing and initial publication date of the video have not been confirmed, the act has also been criticized in China.
Netizens are saying, `It's stupid to wish for good luck", He posted a comment saying, `I spent my money trying to get happiness out of hell.'
In China, there is a custom of burning earthworks to the dead, and through this, we believe that we can live a better life in the afterlife. It is considered bad luck for a living person to keep the money at home or bring it while traveling.
Another netizen wrote "It's illegal to pick a fortune teller without paying. You should be punishedHe pointed out that "and criticism came out that "because of these people, there is a perception that Chinese people are bad tourists"."
The video spread amid heightened tensions between China and Japan after Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae's recent remarks on Taiwan.
Currently, the Chinese government has advised its citizens to refrain from traveling to Japan, and Chinese airlines have issued refunds for flights to Japan, resulting in 543,000 cancellations between November 15 and 18 alone. The Japanese government also delivered a message of safety precautions in China to its citizens.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
