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Post by chansomvia on May 2, 2018 3:50:49 GMT -5
Hi geneki I went last year to the Chingming festival in Taisan and you can see the video I posted. This year my wife went to Malaysia to honor her parents and did the conventional offerings and tomb sweeping on April 4th 2018. I went to London and paid respects to my late mother in the Slough cemetery as shown in the photo. We are practising Catholics and we do not allow tradition or culture to interfere with our paying respects, albeit in differing external rituals, these rituals are all man made and in many ways full of hypocrisy and the holier than thou attitude. I feel that when one goes to pay respects one needs a bit of humility and privacy, the beating of drums, fireworks, sacrifice of animals, the bowing and grovelling, the processions with religious figures dresses in their fineries swinging their incense. all these are superficial and lots of learned elders say it is wrong or right. Follow your own instincts, be respectful in your own way. I arrived at Easter in London flying from KL and gathered my far flung brother and sisters to come and clean the grave, lay new flowers, said a prayer and flew back to Christchurch happy in the knowledge that Mum has a clean grave and her children were able to meet up. Even on the cold UK weather
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