What are those burner things outside temples?
They look small furnaces…?
For burning ghost paper and other offerings.
Ya, we call it “紙錢”, “Zhi Qian” in Chinese. It’s been a custom for more than two thousand years. I don’t like it very much because burning the papers is harmful to the Earth, and lots of trees have to be cut so as to make them.
You can know more about it via Wiki. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_paper