Qingming Festival 清明

Qingming Festival is also known as Tomb Sweeping Day and Ancestors Day.

Joss Paper

Joss Paper

This holiday is celebrated by visiting the grave of ones ancestors to clean the grave site and to offer food, tea, wine and or joss paper.
Joss paper is also referred to as ghost money. It has fake money, food, clothes, houses, phones, etc. printed on it. People burn the joss paperto their ancestors. They believe their ancestors receive the things on the paper and it is used in heaven to provide all that the spirits want and need.