Flowers, roast pork and paper ingots: families keep Chung Yeung traditions alive

Hong Kong families have paid tribute to their ancestors on the final day of the Chung Yeung Festival long weekend, with rituals ranging from full traditional rites to a simple bunch of flowers, despite pricier offerings.

More than a dozen people queued outside Chai Wan MTR station on Monday morning, a public holiday, for the special tomb-sweeping bus to Cape Collinson Chinese Permanent Cemetery.

Citybus staff on site said the service had been busier the previous day, with each bus – running every 20 minutes – full, carrying more than 80 seated passengers.

Yeung, who had come all the way from Lam Tin, was waiting in front of the bus stop with his parent and two bags of offerings.

  

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