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Thread: Ching Ming Festival Offerings - For The Live or For The Gone!?
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[quote=SAYHITOANT ,25337]Yes, well said by Roger.Qing Ming Festival has become another family gathering for us after Lunar New Year. My father passed away almost 17 years ago. Since then, every year during this period, my whole family (20 of us) would visit my father’s tomb. We would spring clean the grave by removing any wild grasses and dirts around the gravesite. We would bring along food and flowers and my mother would personally make “Teochew Png Kueh” – my father’s favourite Teochew Snack (ie. Rice flour cake with steamed glutinous rice filling - see picture below). We do burn paper moneys (in denominations of billions & trillions) hoping that my father would receive them in the afterworld. We didn’t burn paper washing machines, LCD TVs and pictures of beautiful stars though! Anyway, I am a free thinker and I don’t really believe it this sort of thing but if that makes my mother happy, we would do it for her. I have many nieces and nephews and my sisters would also take this opportunity to share with them how great our father was.To us, Qing Ming is a important Chinese festival because, amongst other things, it reinforces the ethic of filial piety.[/quote]
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