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Chinese-Cambodian families head home to mark Ching Ming Festival

| Publication date 04 April 2017 | 15:42 ICT

Chinese-Cambodian families head home to mark Ching Ming Festival

Content image - Phnom Penh Post
Content image - Phnom Penh Post
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Offerings from the Sok family in Pursat province. Image: Sahiba Chawdhary
Content image - Phnom Penh Post
Content image - Phnom Penh Post
Members of the Pen family pay respects to their ancestors last Thursday in Kambol Cemetery, Phnom Penh.
Content image - Phnom Penh Post
Content image - Phnom Penh Post

Today marks the last day of celebrations for Ching Ming Festival – the 2,500-year-old “tomb-sweeping” holiday, so called because families clean and adorn their ancestors’ graves. The festival, one of the year’s most important holidays for the Chinese-Cambodian community, officially lasts three days but often is celebrated for as long as a week. The Post joined some of the many families making pilgrimages back to their hometowns bearing food, decorative paper, incense and other offerings for the deceased. Read the full story here.