Its Qing Ming again, which means Chinese people have to travel back to hometown to pray to their ancestors. Other than that, i personally think that the whole purpose of this day is to create opportunities for distant family members to gather around and have fun.
As for my hometown is in Ipoh, it takes 2 hours plus to reach to the memorial ground so my family departed at 5 am in the morning and reached around 8am. By the time I reached, all my uncles and aunties are already there!
So we started the standard procedures and burn joss stick and pollute the air offer to our ancestors. We are lucky that the weather was HOT during the day, last year it was steaming hot, and the previous year it was burning hot.
After that, I went to Uncle's house and ate some porridge and "Siew G" which means roast pork. (i forgot the pinyin for that). Then, went down to Temoh and visit also and took some photographs.
After that around 3pm, we started our journey back. Raining, i going off!!!!
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Qing Ming
