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Photo Hunt: In Memory

May 10th, 2009 · 4 Comments

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.

joss stick, graveyard, tomb

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

Tags: Camera Types · Canon DIGITAL IXUS i zoom · PhotoHunt

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. :D 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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