And what's your question?

Why Tomb (s)weeping holi-day surprisingly doesn't arouse some conversation?

do you respect your elders  and how is what I am asking?

You shouldn't get accolades or even respect for just being old. Old people can still be assholes - just old assholes. You should get respect for the things that you do and not for the amount of time you have been alive. Some great people achieved a whole lot in just a little time on the planet. Some others did a whole lotta nothing except steal oxygen from future generations.

Some things about the way death is handled in different areas of China interests me.

For example, when I was in rural Hunan, it struck me how many older people buy their own coffin before they die and keep it in the house. And also, they hang photos of their passed on loved ones on the wall with black ribbon draped over.

In the cities death seems to be swept under the carpet, you see no funerals taking place, it's as if death does not happen.

And in rural Guangdong (or at least my wifes hometown), there are tombs everywhere, normally about 50 yards back from the road, but sometimes right beside the road. These tombs have concrete bases ad a semicircular wall, a few feet high, with the open half of the circle facing the road.

My wife refuses to look at a grave, or even in the direction of one. So when we are on these rural roads her head is down.

Being from Britain, I am used to seeing graveyards, with their tightly packed graves. even in towns and cities, it's not unusual to see a church surrounded with graves.

But in China, there seems to be vast swathes of land with no graves at all, then other areas are dotted all over with what looks to be randomly placed tombs.

Happy Easter everyone.

Tomb sweeping day has more meaning than respect for your elders

it as a personal conection for indavidules

April 25th has a meaning for me in a simuler way

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