Lugging bags of food and offerings, families headed to the hills on Sunday to pay respects to their ancestors for the annual Chung Yeung Festival.
The main difference from previous years was markedly improved air quality at some columbarium facilities. In Chai Wan, Tseung Kwan O, Tsuen Wan and Aberdeen, paper offerings are now burned at centralised outdoor stations, and indoor furnaces have been sealed off.
Earlier this year the managers of Hong Kong’s Chinese permanent cemeteries decided...
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