Angela Xu/Shanghai Daily news

The owner of a funeral home was ordered to pay a 1,000-yuan (US$146) compensation for sending a wreath to a woman who wasn't dead.

The owner, surnamed Wang, said that on February 9 a middle-aged woman came into his store and asked him to send a wreath to the home of a dead woman surnamed Chen who had lived in a residential community on Dalian Road. The woman asked Wang to write a somber couplet on the card in the name of residents of building No. 9 in the community.