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'Tomb-sweeping services'

Updated: 2015-04-02 07:21
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Preet (China)

Traditionally, people believed ancestors can enjoy the food they put on the grave and their ancestors can become rich and live a happy life in another world with the offerings. Like people who buy flowers online on Mother's Day or Valentine's Day for their mother or lover who lives far away, it is practical to entrust an agency to sweep the tomb of dead family members.

'Tomb-sweeping services'

People visit the tombstones of deceased relatives during Qingming Festival, or Tomb Sweeping Day, at Songhe cemetery on the outskirts of Shanghai April 5, 2014. [Photo/Agencies]

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