The Chinese government is cracking down on the practice of hiring strippers to perform at funerals, according to reports.

The strippers are commonly hired to attract more mourners, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The practice has been around for some time.

Photographs of a dancer performing at a funeral in the city of Handan last month showed a woman removing her bra in front of onlookers.

The Ministry of Culture released a statement this week saying it was working with police to stop the practice, which it described as “obscene.”

The practice was thought to bring good fortune to the deceased person in the afterlife.

A witness to a performance in China’s Hebei province this February told the state-run Global Times newspaper he had seen two strippers dancing in a public square.

“They first danced passionately and then took off their clothes piece by piece,” he said.

A 2006 report by state-run broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) found large numbers of funeral performance troupes were operating in villages around the country at a rate of 2000 Yuan ($AUD415) per event.

Source: sbs.com.au

Funeral strippers… we’re not sure this would catch on in Australia, what do you think? Let us know below!