Qing Ming

QING MING:
Tomb Sweeping day/All Souls Day

(April 5th 2010 was the day this year)

Highlights:
-People enjoy the outdoors and "clean" their relatives graves
-They offer food and beverages, and now have started to offer items in order to "comfort" the dead in the afterlife
-They don't cook on this day (they only eat cold food)
-Premier Zhou Enlai and Chiang Kai-shek are two deaths that occurred on/around this day and are celebrated.


Interesting (& Sexy) Side Note:

To mark the day, Chinese traditionally tend the graves of their departed loved ones and often burn paper money, model houses, cars, mobile phones and other goods as offerings to honor them and keep them comfortable in the afterlife. But paper lingerie has become an increasingly popular offering for dead female relatives, Tan Lay Nah, owner of a paper model shop in the northern island state of Penang, told the Star daily.

"Most customers find them cute and would usually add a few sets to go with other paper clothing and items such as dresses, bags and shoes for their female family members to use in the other world," she said.