Paper offerings shop in Hong Kong / Photo: David Bose Estrada, Flickr
The cost of food and paper offerings went up by at least 20 percent compared to last year for the weekend’s Ching Ming festival, where families brought various kinds of seasonal fruits and cooked dishes for relatives to gather around the grave and enjoy a meal.
One family said that they spent more than HK$1,000 to prepare for the day, when last year they only spent HK$800. Hundreds of thousands of people visited the graves of their ancestors on Ching Ming, and one 65-year-old woman suffered a minor injury after falling into a 2.5-metre-deep cave near Pak Tso Wan when she hiked to a grave on a hill in southeast Cheung Chau.
Paper offersing to ancestors / Photo: Erin Altomare, Flickr
Source: SCMP
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