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What are the customs of Hongkong people in Tomb-Sweeping Day? Is it the same as Chinese mainland?

Q: It is basically the same for Hongkong and Chinese mainland to pass through Tomb-Sweeping Day. After all, we are all from China. Hong Kong was ruled by Britain in its early years and returned to China in 1997. Although foreign cultures have exaggerated for many years, Hong Kong people have not forgotten that they are an inseparable part of China, and some traditions of China are still passed down in Hong Kong. Like Chinese mainland, Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the important festivals in Hongkong. So how does Hongkong visit Tomb-Sweeping Day, and what are the customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day? Let Kang Hui Bian Xiao tell you! The Qingming custom of Hong Kong people is an important local festival. Hong Kong people will go to the graves of their ancestors to burn incense and play cymbals. Sacrifices are mostly fruits, flowers, roast pigs or boiled chickens. In order to avoid overcrowding, some Hong Kong people are used to offering sacrifices to the mountains a few weeks in advance, instead of following the tradition of offering sacrifices to their ancestors in Tomb-Sweeping Day. As early as the British rule, although the border between China and Hong Kong was heavily guarded, the Sha Tau Kok restricted area on the border between China and Hong Kong was often only open to people to worship at Sha Ling Cemetery during the Qingming Festival. In earlier years, China had not implemented the policy of reform and opening up. Many people will go home in Tomb-Sweeping Day under the guise of ancestor worship. Everyone wears multi-layered clothes and carries an unusually large number of daily necessities to help relatives and friends in the countryside. There will also be a phenomenon of snapping up train tickets and scalper tickets between China Mainland and Hongkong. In recent decades, when Hong Kong people were cleaning up weeds in front of their ancestors' graves, some people believed that the geomantic omen said that "the ground would burn brightly" and set fire to weeds, causing many serious mountain fires, which attracted much attention from the society. In 2007, some organizations will launch the "Qingming no mountain fire pledging conference", calling on the public not to set fire to weed. Qingming also brought a saying to the local people: "Say it in advance (talk about something)", which means to cut the crap and leave it to Tomb-Sweeping Day. But now Hong Kong people can't afford a series of complicated sacrificial activities required by the old customs. When young people are in Tomb-Sweeping Day, they don't have enough time, money and patience to worship their relatives with incense sticks and sacrifices. Perhaps, it doesn't matter what kind of sacrifices they choose. As long as they can remember Tomb-Sweeping Day and visit their relatives' graves on this festival, the significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day's existence will be realized.