Daily Life in China                  

Grave Sweeping Day in Hubei China.

    Grave Sweeping Day is a day when the Chinese remember their departed relatives.  They spruce up the spruce up the grave sites and decorate them.  They also light off lots of firecrackers to ward off the evil spirits and lets the departed know someone is around that cares about them. 

    The plots are above ground and house an urn as vast majority of departed are cremated.  Cemeteries are almost always on hills. This is a large one but out in the country there are small and individual plots in the fields, a nearby hill and sometimes mixed in crop plots.

   The event is well attended so huge numbers of people are traveling to the cemetery.  The road to the cemetery is blocked off to vehicles other than bicycles or foot traffic and busses are run from the city to the site.