The joss sticks for paying respect to the ancestor during Qing Ming.
This is what Qing Ming is all about, taken from Wikipedia:
The Qingming Festival (traditional Chinese: 清明節; simplified Chinese: 清明节; pinyin: Qīngmíngjié, Ching Ming Festival in Hong Kong, Vietnamese language: Tết Thanh Minh), Clear Bright Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day is a traditional Chinese festival on the 104th day after the winter solstice (or the 15th day from the Spring Equinox), usually occurring around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar (see Chinese calendar). Astronomically, it is also a solar term (See Qingming). In solar terms, the Qingming festival is on the 1st day of the 5th solar term, which is also named Qingming. Its name denotes a time for people to go outside and enjoy the greenery of springtime (踏青 Tàqīng, “treading on the greenery”), and also to tend to the graves of departed ones.

Location: At my late grandparents tomb.
Comments: Resized, adjusted the curves a bit.
Taken with: Canon DIGITAL IXUS i zoom
Date taken: 1/4/2007





4 comment so far ↓
1 healingmagichands // May 11, 2009 at 3:32 am
great photo, well composed. Nice take on the theme.
http://healingmagichands.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/photohunt-in-memory/
2 Irene // May 11, 2009 at 1:54 pm
You have nice photo too. Thanks for coming.
3 Mike Yip // May 14, 2009 at 8:38 am
it’ll look great if you could have shot the joss sticks slightly tilted so that the smokes could be seen.
just my two sens
4 Irene // May 15, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Mike, hehehe… I just point and shot no time to compose coz they took it away right after that ;p
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