In Pictures: Families honour their ancestors at the Qingming festival

Qingming or Tomb Sweeping Day is an annual Chinese festival where families honour and pay their respects to their ancestors, and even beloved pets. These rites include prayers, cleaning or sweeping the tombs, and offerings of food and drink at the graves of their departed loved ones.

Updated
Apr 05, 2016, 09:15 AM
Published
Apr 04, 2016, 03:47 PM
Ethnic Chinese Malaysians visit the graves of their ancestors in Kuala Lumpur to mark the Qingming festival on April 4, 2016. PHOTO: AFP
Chinese people stand among gravestones of their deceased relatives to mark the Qingming festival in Beijing on April 4, 2016. PHOTO: EPA
A child picks up offerings and paper money during a ceremony to mark the Qingming festival in Taiwan on April 4, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS
Thousands of people surnamed Yeh attend an annual worship ceremony to pay respect to their ancestors in Taiwan on April 4, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS
A pet owner gestures to her dog after she swept the tomb of her previous dog to mark the Qingming festival in Beijing on April 4, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS
A man cleans a gravestone to mark the Qingming festival in Beijing on April 4, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS
Paper money burns beside a grave to mark the Qingming festival in Shanghai on April 4, 2016. PHOTO: AFP
A Chinese man brings flowers to the gravesite of his deceased relatives to mark the Qingming festival in Beijing on April 4, 2016. PHOTO: EPA

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