Ching Ming Festival

Today is a public holiday (hooray!). It is called the Ching Ming Festival, where families go to their ancestor's and relative's graves and clean/sweep them. Some people also burn paper money, paper clothes or other paper items today, as they believe the relatives can receive the goods this way. There is high fire danger on the hills today, as many graves are just on a hill and not in a cemetary. They burn their paper offerings but never have any water to put out the fires! It makes the week seem nice and short, especially as yesterday was a CPD (professional development) day and we had no kids at school.