🏠 While traveling abroad, I noticed something strange: 😵💫 in all the local houses, aside from the main entrance, there are doors about 1.5 meters tall with no steps leading up to them. 😮 Does anyone know how people enter these doors or what they are for?👇👇
For days, I couldn’t stop thinking about these peculiar doors. They seemed deliberately designed yet completely impractical for regular use. I even asked a few locals, but their answers were either vague or evasive, which only deepened the mystery.
I started imagining all sorts of scenarios. Were they secret entrances? Emergency exits? Maybe something to do with the weather? One evening, I even dreamed of tiny people bustling in and out of these miniature doorways, living parallel lives just out of sight.
Eventually, curiosity got the better of me, and I approached an elderly man sitting outside one of the houses. Pointing to the unusual door, I asked him, “What is that for?” His expression shifted from mild amusement to solemnity.
“It’s not for entering,” he said. “The actual entrance is on the other side.”
Confused, I pressed him for more details. That’s when he revealed the truth: these doors are part of an old tradition, tied to funeral rites.
In this culture, the small doors are known as “spirit doors.” They are opened only during funeral ceremonies, symbolizing the passage of the deceased’s soul from the house to the afterlife. Since the soul is believed to leave through this door, it is never used for mundane purposes.
Hearing this, I felt a shiver run down my spine. What I had thought was a quirky architectural feature turned out to be a profound and sacred tradition.
So, if you ever spot a small, mysterious door like this, you might just be looking at a doorway for the spirit world — a quiet reminder of the delicate line between life and the afterlife. 🕊
