Tomb Sweeping

Qing Ming, the tomb sweeping festival, was celebrated on the Monday after Easter in China this year. As our kids had the day off for the holiday, we took a family bike ride out to the shore with the Allens. On the way we passed a dozen or so of these "swept" tombs. They were by the side of the road, not in any type of marked cemetery but in this unofficial burial ground. The mounds appeared to have been literally swept or raked clean, and decorated with streamers and flowers. A couple had incense burning on them.