Ching meng
Ching meng
Or whatever it's called. Spent all morning in a field putting coloured ribbons on a pile of sand. Flies everywhere. Then the beer came out and we all ate broiled chicken. Better than easter sunday ina church, but still a tad on the shit side of how to relax on a sunday.
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Beats having to drive 80 km to a wedding in east bumfuck to this afternoon like me.pedros wrote:Or whatever it's called. Spent all morning in a field putting coloured ribbons on a pile of sand. Flies everywhere. Then the beer came out and we all ate broiled chicken. Better than easter sunday ina church, but still a tad on the shit side of how to relax on a sunday.
So is Ching Meng tonday or Thursday? I have some staff taking Thursday off for this I think.
Pretty sure today, there were other peasants on the next plot of dirt putting ribbons on a pile of sand and burning paper range rovers. They didnt ferry in a pair of monks like our clan.... amateurs.
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Was the chicken marinated in cordite & shrapnel, or was it the normal khmer style fare ?
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I had never heard of this holiday or ceremony before, this year I'm hearing about it a lot, is there a reason for that?
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gavinmac wrote:I had never heard of this holiday or ceremony before, this year I'm hearing about it a lot, is there a reason for that?
It's a standard grave clearing picnic party for chinese/viet khmer who have buried their dead rather than burning them. I've known about since I've been here, but as a non official holiday, always been able to make excuses. This time, being sunday, I had to accept the inevitable.
Luckily it is quick, a load of paper ribbons, a brace of orange dudes, burn a paper house and on to the beers.
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So you celebrated Easter Sunday sweeping tombs. Sort of appropriate I supposepedros wrote:gavinmac wrote:I had never heard of this holiday or ceremony before, this year I'm hearing about it a lot, is there a reason for that?
It's a standard grave clearing picnic party for chinese/viet khmer who have buried their dead rather than burning them. I've known about since I've been here, but as a non official holiday, always been able to make excuses. This time, being sunday, I had to accept the inevitable.
Luckily it is quick, a load of paper ribbons, a brace of orange dudes, burn a paper house and on to the beers.
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Yea, that’s what my calendar showed and the day staff are taking off.QED wrote:I was told it's on Thursday.
A quick google search confirms that:
I just asked Chinese Khmers, and was told it starts today and ends on Thursday.In traditional Chinese, 清明節 falls in the third lunar month of the Chinese calendar, which is usually in the first week of April in the Gregorian calendar. The festival is very ancient, dating back in Chinese history around 2,500 years.
Ching Ming is known by other names also, for example: Festival for Tending Graves, Clear Bright Festival and Tomb Sweeping Day.
These names quite accurately describe the theme of the Ching Ming Festival. It is the day, and often the only day each year, when many families visit the graves and tombs of their ancestors. During the visit, they tidy the headstones, clean away grass and weeds, light incense and make burnt offerings, often of fake money but sometimes of paper effigies resembling valuable items.
Food offerings are also made. The ceremony surrounding these involves the number three. Three bowls are often laid out with a set of chopsticks for each. The head of the family pours out wine on the grave then family members take turns to bow three times each to the headstone with their hands held together in a particular way. Following this, the food is shared together by the family in honour of the ancestor.
Some people are less traditional and do not go to the ancestors’ tombs on Ching Ming. Another tradition for this day is to fly kites and many couples begin their courting on Ching Ming.
It is not only in Hong Kong that Ching Ming is recognised. Chinese people all around the world use this day to remember their family ancestors, whether at a local tomb if there is one, or with a simple day of respect.
Ching Ming is the first of the 24 annual ‘solar terms’ recognised by the lunisolar calendar, being at the 15-degree mark of the path of the sun each year. This is the first point after the vernal equinox.
Suppose if all the chinese went to dust the graves on the same day the world would shift of its axis.
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Everyone in Cambodia is Chinese descent, didnt you know that? My in law side of the family all religiously celebrate the Chinese new year and this cheng meng thing even though they look 100% Khmer right off the bat, but because their great great grandfather is a Chinese they had to carry on this tradition, lol.
I was arguing with the mrs that I didn't have to go to this tomorrow, as I went last year.
"No you didn't"
"Yes I did"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes"
Then doubt starts to creep in, as my own (limited) sanity is questioned. So I typed Ching Ming Cambodia into the old Google and this thread popped up.
Case closed.
"No you didn't"
"Yes I did"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes"
Then doubt starts to creep in, as my own (limited) sanity is questioned. So I typed Ching Ming Cambodia into the old Google and this thread popped up.
Case closed.
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