This
Chinese Cemetery near Sha Tin is very interesting. (Ab0ve) Chinese, who have a great belief in an after-life, remember their deceased relatives specially this time of year (appropriately, Easter) during the Ching Ming Festival. They bring food (often entire meals)and flowers to honor their ancestors. Then they burn incense and pray before their crypts. (Below)
The family prepares large packages (some pillow-shaped, others the size of large suitcases) with clothes, food, notes, fake money, TV's, and anything else they think their ancestor will need in the afterlife. (All of it is paper, of course!) After more prayers, the package is thrown into the furnace to be burned for the benefit of their ancestor. There are about 6 of these large furnaces around the cemetery and it doesn't take long to fill the air with paper ashes.
This Chinese Cemetery near Sha Tin is very interesting. (Ab0ve) Chinese, who have a great belief in an after-life, remember their deceased relatives specially this time of year (appropriately, Easter) during the Ching Ming Festival. They bring food (often entire meals)and flowers to honor their ancestors. Then they burn incense and pray before their crypts. (Below)
The family prepares large packages (some pillow-shaped, others the size of large suitcases) with clothes, food, notes, fake money, TV's, and anything else they think their ancestor will need in the afterlife. (All of it is paper, of course!) After more prayers, the package is thrown into the furnace to be burned for the benefit of their ancestor. There are about 6 of these large furnaces around the cemetery and it doesn't take long to fill the air with paper ashes.
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We are loving your pictures. We can't wait to go to Hong Kong. Some day. Love, Deanne
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