Tomb Sweeping

Yesterday was the traditional festival of Qingming when people sweep the tombs in the graveyard. This custom has been practiced for thousands of years. People hold a memorial ceremony for their ancestors. The weather was bad, a little cold and drizzled. The traffic was jammed too because a lot of people had to travel a long distance to get to the graveyard. My parents and my uncles went to my grandfather's tomb and maintained the tomb and burned paper specially made to resemble money as an offering to the dead. Then we came back home and saw other people setting up a tombstone for their kinsfolk.