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The tomb sweeping day is one of the traditional festivals in China. OnApril 5th, people start to visit their ancestors’ tombs. Generally speaking,people will bring the home-made food, some fake money and paper-made mansion totheir ancestors. When they start to honour their ancestor, they will light upsome candles and incense, put some flowers around the tombs. The most importantthing is to put the home-made food in front of the tombs. The food, also knownas sacrifices, is usually made up with a chicken, a fish and some pork. It’s asymbol of the offspring’s respect to the ancestors. People believe that theforbears will share the food with them. The children dedicate the food and moneyto their forbears in order to show their love and caring. The young offspringwill go down on their knees and pray for their ancestors. They can say theirwishes in front of the tombs and the ancestors will make their dreams cometrue.

In some provinces of China, people use different activities to commemoratethis day, for instance, spring-outing, swinging, tree planting and makingspecial food. One special food is Ay Tsao rice balls. It looks like Tang-yuan,but its colour is green. Mix the ay tsao juice with the rice powder, then makeit into small balls. The Ay Tsao rice ball is done. People believe that eatingay tsao rice balls can get rid of the bad luck and everything will go smoothly.Other activities such as spring outing, tree planting are the other ways tocommemorate the forbears. For one thing, it is a sign that people should lookinto the future and embrace the hope; for another thing, we do hope our ancestorrest in peace.