The festival of Qingming in is a bit like the All Saints Day in Spain (also called Sha Mu, which means to sweep tombs). Although the practice of traditional rites is banned by the government, the party is held to honor the ancestors, although in theory not allowed to do what many Chinese are doing, especially in the towns (we have witnessed in our journey through the villages of Anhui). Several days a year in which the Chinese remember their ancestors and must render any kind of respect and honor. Burn money, houses, clothes, everything from paper to send to relatives in the afterlife and does not lack anything. For the people Hongcun, Xidi and Shexian, the grandparents could see burning the papers in brass burners. I saw something similar in Beijing in October (on the first day of the lunar calendar), when I started to get cold and many crossroads of the city, in every corner, you saw people burn paper clothing send to their families (tai leng le), to explain why I said that winter was coming and their dead relatives were also warm. The papers are burned in a circle drawn on the floor with water, which is not completely closed, so that the spirits, to leave and enter.
Other interesting chapters of our trip in Anhui, the increase from five hours to the Yellow Mountain is about the least exciting. I stand with the people and the hard lives, the deep and rough China, travel to a village horrible buggy, with a walled area more remarkable. With students who invite us to their school. The restaurants with the fresh catch of the day right at the entrance of the rabbit, owl, snake, hedgehog, turkey, doves, frogs. One side by side, each in its cage or bowl, waiting to be skinned or plucked by touch and cooked in a wok seasoned with pepper and sesame oil.
Other interesting chapters of our trip in Anhui, the increase from five hours to the Yellow Mountain is about the least exciting. I stand with the people and the hard lives, the deep and rough China, travel to a village horrible buggy, with a walled area more remarkable. With students who invite us to their school. The restaurants with the fresh catch of the day right at the entrance of the rabbit, owl, snake, hedgehog, turkey, doves, frogs. One side by side, each in its cage or bowl, waiting to be skinned or plucked by touch and cooked in a wok seasoned with pepper and sesame oil.