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Elder placing incense at an ancestral altar inside a traditional Chinese clan temple during the Qingming Festival.

Qingming in the Five Counties: A Diaspora Descendant’s Guide to Tomb-Sweeping in Wuyi

Qingming in the Five Counties: A Diaspora Descendant's Guide to Tomb-Sweeping in Wuyi Every spring, a quiet migration takes place. From San Francisco, Toronto, Sydney, and Singapore, thousands of overseas Chinese board planes bound for a small region in southern China. They carry no suitcases of gifts—just themselves, and sometimes, a lifetime of questions. They…

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