All generations participate in this event, but I could tell that it did not mean very much to the younger generation. The 16 year old pictured sat in the car for the last three. It really has just become a tradition.

They wrap the tomb in firecrackers and set them off when they leave. Quite loud, but people across the countryside know that someone is being honored.

They set food out for the acestors to eat. This family gave two roast pigs, a live chicken, cooked fish, colored rice, wine, and apples. They remove the food before they leave and bring it to the next tomb (7 in all for this family).

The family burns fake paper money and sheets of incense for the dead.

Setting up incense around the ancestors tombs during the week of Qing Ming Jie (tomb sweeping day)

I was standing at the city bus stop when I saw this chicken hanging upsidedown. This is not an unusual thing, but I suddenly started wondering what it would be like to be the chicken. How would like to be drug around town hanging by your legs. So, wondering the perpective of the chicken, I hund my camera upsidedown and took a chicken-eyed-view of the bus stop.

On our way home the bus broke down on the side of the road. I would have to say that I am very impressed that it was my first time for that to happen since I have been here (and I ride the bus the a lot). My shirt says "Today is a Good Day" and that was very true. Though we got home an hour lated than expected, it was still a good day.