QIngMing

Qingming or Cheng Beng is a traditional festival for ancestor worship. It usually falls on April 5th and at times April 4th. 

This is the yearly tradition where Chinese will visit their ancestors’ cemeteries, clean their tombs and serve their dead family members some food or fruits.  This tradition is being practised in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore.  You are allowed to carry out the worshipping 10 days before and 10 days after the actual day.

After the cleaning and prayers, the family members will burn the afterlife paper money or replica material goods such as clothes, shoes etc.

This practice is an act of being filial. One of the food item that is being offered is Fatt Kueh or Prosperity Cake.  You are required to decorate the graveyard with Josstick, silver, gold and color paper and stone on top of the papers as an act of collecting wealth.

An yearly affair at burial site

This prayer was for those cremated