many many cars trying to squeeze in
serenity on the outer side of the park
trees lining the path near the entrance
burning of offerings to the deities
There's a certain sequence of events that we had to follow. Offerings to the deities first in the temple just after the entrance, then only to the tomb.
We had a hard time finding the tomb as the usual path was blocked due to too many vehicles in the compound. After turning round and round and getting stuck over and over again, we finally reached after 1.5 hours. The place had workers on hand who would fetch half-cut tin barrels to burn the offerings, and also big umbrellas to shade us from the sun.
There was a family near us that had like more than 20 boxes of offerings stacked up to burn. That's quite impressive!
At the tomb area, it was stated no photography but I saw some people still whipped out their video cameras and proceeded to capture the event!
chrysanthemum
My aunties prepared food, some bought and some home-made, fruits and all these are part of the offerings, besides the paper offerings that we burnt. After we're done, it was time to go home.
There was still alot of cars in the compound and getting out is no easy feat! Because there were so many cars, the sun was burning hot and there was a perpetual snaking queue and cars not moving, some drivers got impatient and tried to manouvre their huge cars in tight or near impossible corners. I saw one that scraped the side rear of another stationary car! And the culprit just went off... sigh.. humans tsk tsk...
Read more about the origins of the Qing Ming festival.
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