The official name is QingMing Jie but it is also widely known as Clear Bright Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day or All Souls Day by some English paper. It's a day celebrated by the Chinese community on the 15th day from the Spring Equinox to honor past ancestors. The ceremony comprises of cleaning and sweeping the graves, offering of food to deceased and burning of joss-sticks and joss papers.

This year my eldest uncle, dad, mom and I went to perform our duty and pay our respect to Grandpa on the 28th of March. We started of as early as 5am in the morning to avoid the traffic jam and to avoid fussing over parking space. We are gradually phasing out the burning of joss-sticks and joss papers because we are aware of the inflating pollution that is sweeping us throughout the world. We can't discontinue it abruptly as we do not want to distress Granny either. Anyway it's a good thing that we are slowly scrapping off the harmful burning ritual. We started the service early and thus we finished early too. We left the ground at about 8.30am for some "Chou Cha" before heading home