The Process of Traditional Tomb Sweeping in Chaoshan on Qingming Day

When people arrive at the graveyard, they first pull out the weeds and trees in front of the tomb and the body of the tomb, clean it up, and use red paint to re-scribe the words on the stone monument once. When the festival is about to be over, one has to press a note on the tomb. If the grave was repaired after the Qingming Festival last year, twelve medieval coins were pressed on the top of the stele, and thirteen in leap months, for the deceased's expenses in the underworld. Five to seven layers of paper strips are pressed on the grave. How wide this year, how wide next year, can not be expanded and narrowed, it is said to be the deceased to return the "rent" range. Tomb offerings, there must be hot cooked arkshells, ate arkshells, arkshells pressed paper strips, meant to be left to the ancestors as money. There is a rule to press money: the newly built grave last year is called "New Society" and red and white paper strips should be pressed on the grave this year. Every year after that, white paper will be used to press the money. As a result of the paper, tomb sweeping is commonly known as "over the paper".