Qing Ming Festival - 清明節

This year Qing Ming Festival (清明節) or Ching Ming (in Cantonese)
falls on 4th April 2009.

For those not familiar with Qing Ming Festival, it is a time where
family members get together, visit the graves of our ancestors,
clean those weeds around the graveyard and perform some prayers.

For more information about the festival please visit the following
link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Ming_Festival

We are allow the flexibility of performing veneration 10 days
before and after the Qing Ming Festival.

That's is according to my mum in which she says its according
to ancient custom.

The crowd as been shrinking by the years as older members of
the family cannot make it through the tough terrain heading
toward our great grandparent graves.

After the death of my 3rd & 4th uncle, in 2006 & 2008
respectively, I am expecting even a smaller crowd.

But this time around, there is a little surprise.

My cousin brothers bring along their kids.

The kids share the same family name and in future the kids are the
one who going to continue the traditional of Qing Ming.

Hey, but they all speaks Mandarin and English and very little
Cantonese.

Can my great grandparents understand what they say when the
younger of their grandsons or grand daughters "speak" to them?

By the way we are from Canton. Now call Guang Zhou in China.