The AIRR Tech Team formed a processionary assembly to debut a new web page on Taoist Tomb Sweeping Day or Ching Ming Jie. This is a memorial festival on which people visit the burial sites of their ancestors; it takes place on April 4th, 5th, or 6th in any given year. In addition to cleaning the graves, celebrants make food and drink offerings to the family ancestors, and burn incense and joss paper in their honour and for their benefit in the afterlife. Catherine Yronwode wrote the page. She and Nagasiva Yronwode sourced and edited the photographs; Papa Newt did proofreading, site-wide linking, and expanded our Ancestor and Graveyard pages with new text and photos; and Nagasiva Yronwode created this graphic announcement. Check out our reverential new page on Tomb Sweeping Day!
The Tomb Sweeping Day page is here:
http://readersandrootworkers.org/wiki/C ... eeping_Day
We shall now move to social media, to share the Tomb Sweeping Day page at the AIRR page on Facebook, here:
https://www.facebook.com/ReadersandRootworkers
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