Johann Low

火曜日, 3月 29, 2005

[Qing Ming]

Its Qing Ming Festival once more (Tombsweeping Festival). To me I do not really like it cos I need to mingle myself in Tzu Du Monastry with a fog of incense smoke,have teary eyes,choke nostrils and tons of people who come for the same reason. My mum and I were supposed to go to the monastry in the afternoon, then it became morning THEN AGAIN, it became afternoon. Nevertheless, there were surprisingly less people there. Anyway, its due to the slight rain.

Before that my mum and I went to buy some "necessities". There was a shop nearby which sells all these neccessitities for other side of the world. In fact this shop was featured on TV once. With modernization, things are different now. When I was young, I only saw those incense paper, some coarse paper with a patch of silver or gold in the middle. Some yellowish paper and of cos bank notes worth trillions of dollars.

Now there are TVs,aeroplanes,stereo systems,DVD players,cam corders,laptops,motorcycles,cars,dim sum set,dentures,cigarettes,computers. Even the brands are familar. I even saw a Hando motorbike..Try switching the place of the A and O and u'll get it.

U can almost find anything to burn to ur ancestors. Its very interesting to see what new stuff comes everytime my mum and I go to temple during Hungry Ghost's,Tombsweeping and my dad's death anniversary. There have a few times when I wanted to buy dentures for my late grandma. Haha..Apparently, we do not know whether our ancestors will recieve all these offerings but its part of Chinese culture and is something one shld not abundane no matter what ur religion is. Of cos Christian beliefs contradict to quite a lot of Chinese traditions.

For me I always believe traditions and religion can co-exist.There are hardly any real tombs left to be "swept" I used to like going to my grandfather's tomb when I was in pri school during tombsweeping day.

elow at 11:30 午後 |

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