Sweeping the Tomb

Look! That's my daughter carrying her backpack of goodies & drinks for the walk to pray to the ancestors. It's that time of the year that we all do our duty (following the elderly) to pray to ancestors, whom we have not even met. All the crowd, the smoke & the frantic search for carpark are tolerated every year as we need to please the elderly folks.
Told my daughters that they can skip this process when I'm not around as I do not believe in this at all. Give due respect & be filial to your parents while they are alive is 100 times much better than praying to the dead (who knows whether they receive all the paper money that was burnt).
But, that's the beauty of Chinese tradition & if nothing else, it does bring the family to come together & meet on such a occasion where we can share food (eh, all the praying items are like a spread eaten there) & partake of daily lives gossips. All folders for takeaway.

Ya, we will do the same the next year this time round. Well, another round of praying come another week for my own ancestors. That was the dad's side of it..
Sign off for an early nite.