Friday, April 17, 2009

Chinese Cemetary

This video is clips of the local cemetary. The pictures and videos were taken about a week after a national holiday where they go to the graves of their families and set off fireworks and talk to their ancestors. They also have a feast with their families. The cemetaries are very dirty and very unorganized. You bring your own head stone and make your own outlining of the bodies. The ceremony for when one dies here is when they die, they keep the body in the house for 4 days for the viewing. The number 4 represents death. Then they carry the body out to the streets and everyone is dressed in white, white represents death, and they dig the hole and put the body in the hole. And cover it back up again.