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Q: Qingming 'holiday'....what's it really for?
Viki said she can't 'enjoy' her Qingming holiday.
And, I wonder at this - the day when one is supposed to go to the gravesites of your ancestors (usually only just a grandparent), sweep the tomb, leave flowers, food, burn (fake) money (well, the stuff that's designed to be fake!), and show your respects to your ancestors....
Personally, I don't really see how the word 'enjoy' would come into it...
So... should people be given holidays if the meaning behind it is gone? Should Christmas be a holiday here, given that its significance is lost here? After all, Easter certainly doesn't grant you a holiday!
Are you telling us what she said, because nobody reads her?
Man, she's got 7 Qs per hour. She might be a cop.? Only cops can ask so many Qs in such short time.
Don't you think-think, we deserve break here and there?
'e-Viki-tities'
''Dia de Muerto' in Spanish 
In my family, I always enjoy 
some Cubans, while outside ..... It's only me, who enjoys Castros .... with some malt Scotch-to-go.
I have to say, everybody else hates my 'enjoy' ..
A topic starts from Viki
There are many Chinese in the provinces where there are still graveyards that do precisely this on Qing Ming ... for example, the Harbin Central Cemetery, the historic ancestral mounds that line the coastal hills of many regions in the Dong Bei, the main cemetery in Beijing. The meaning of the holiday is not lost on all of the Chinese. Additionally you forgot to mention that this holiday was "restored" to the calendar by the CPC less than ten years ago, after having been suppressed since 1949.
In France for example many of the more traditional French still visit the family tombs on Novenber 1 and 2
how many cemeteries are left in major cities when everybody gets burned to ashes and put in a drawer stacked high like shoeboxes, this creates a large supply of dead ancestors and consequently a large dose of cars visiting on one day a year and traffic congestion worse than a normal workday.
Perhaps the gesture is in good faith, but with a large population and the count getting higher and higher every year, an alternative method for observance should be considered. Rotating the holiday by provinces and by cities, I don't know, large density countries have to think outside the box to make things work better. I sort of doubt the young generation really wants to visit cemeteries at all and maybe the solution is to do nothing and the tradition will die out like every thing else cultural in China that the government does not fund and force on the people.
Shining_brow:
I, unfortunately, live a 5 minute walk from one of those cemeteries... and it SUCKS for transport here... (obviously, it's dead quiet the rest of the year... bwahahahaha).
It's gross anyway. celebrates cannibalism. fkn gross! 
not that I believe the legend, but who knows,,,, anyway, it does in a very roundabout way celebrate it. I wish china, and the world would get rid of the old merde, reduce population, and GO Green tout suite!
icnif77:
I READ, ass is the best , the softest .... part ... in diary of S. American football team left in Andes ... LTA (1980-tis).
diverdude1:
ha, I vaguely remember that story from when I was a kid. Some plane crash up in the Andes left some sport team stranded. After a while they started throwing a munch on the cadavers. 
wow, don't know if I could do that, sure hope I don't have to find out !
icnif77:
'Munch' (the word in this context makes me laugh ) on your buddy or snow, ice and some gravel here and there as a 'prime course'.
I read last week, one (single ) Philippino survived 2 months at sea. He was eating algae floating around and drinking rain.
First, you shouldn't use word 'cadavers', but some nicer, warmer name.
Similar to menus .... they never use single word at meal descriptions .... 'Modena tortellini' LOLOLO ... or 'Pottage Saint Germaine' as soup description. It's ''ma-jau-rii' (potato) soup'', nothing else.
Hotwater:
I watched the movie about that sports team recently. They had no choice. Eat or survive.
viki's thinkin' (holidays = enjoy) is gettin' populr in modern times. (aren't we in consumerism era).
