Ching Ming is a Chinese festival in which families go out to care for the graves of their ancestors, and to offer them burnt gifts of paper replicas of money and material goods. The ancestors are cared for as the family celebrates, the living and the dead together.
What do you offer to those who have gone before you?
Mostly gratitude for the examples that they set – both positive & not so positive. As I approach my 70th birthday, I’m more & more aware of the VALUE of examples of how to LIVE & how to transition from this world to the next.
I talk to my Mother and my Father and my grandparents almost daily. Sometimes just a sentence or two. Sometimes I have more to say to them.
I bring the music of those who have long since died alive through playing my recorder.