GEORGE TOWN , PENANG, MALAYSIA - Chinese families took advantage of the weekend before the end of the school holidays to fulfil their obligations for the Qing Ming festival.
Despite the hot weather, Chinese cemeteries here were a hive of activity, the main roads congested with vehicles filled with families marking Tomb Sweeping Day when they spruce up the graves and tombstones of their loved ones.
Among the offerings of roast pork, poultry, kuih, tea, fruits and flowers, paper effigies and hell notes were burnt to secure a "comfortable lifestyle" for the departed in the afterworld.This period of prayers will go on for another 10 days after 4th April and is one of the most must-do Festival.
- As reported by Royce Tan in The Star, with some editing
Saturday, 30 March 2013
THE QING MING TOMB CLEARING FESTIVAL
GEORGE TOWN , PENANG, MALAYSIA - Chinese families took advantage of the weekend before the end of the school holidays to fulfil their obligations for the Qing Ming festival.
Despite the hot weather, Chinese cemeteries here were a hive of activity, the main roads congested with vehicles filled with families marking Tomb Sweeping Day when they spruce up the graves and tombstones of their loved ones.
Among the offerings of roast pork, poultry, kuih, tea, fruits and flowers, paper effigies and hell notes were burnt to secure a "comfortable lifestyle" for the departed in the afterworld.This period of prayers will go on for another 10 days after 4th April and is one of the most must-do Festival.
- As reported by Royce Tan in The Star, with some editing
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