Businessman rents out actors to cry at funerals

A Chinese businessman has started hiring out mourners to cry at gravesides.

A Chinese businessman has started hiring out mourners to cry at gravesides.

Canny Li Ch’in has more than 30 out-of-work actors on his books who he rents out to funerals and other events for those families who are too busy to attend a deceased love one's grave.

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