Feeling much better than yesterday, but still hacking up a lung and my nose is running even after taking oxymetazoline spray which usually dries things right out for me. Tomorrow we’re going down to Tainan for Tomb Sweeping Day and come back on Sunday. We’re gonna take the bus down tomorrow and for some reason return by plane on Sunday. Actually Tomb Sweeping Day is not for more than a week, but we usually go early to avoid the crowds. I’m not looking forward to going with a bad cold, but unless I can’t get out of bed like yesterday, I’ll have to slog through. Also looks like we won’t be going through Kaohsiung this year, so no Fried Fish Soup from Liuhe Night Market. 🙁 I’ll have to try to get us to go to the one in Tainan, but my favorite is the one from Kaohsiung.
I have a question – tomb sweeping day, I assume it’s “qing ming” (清明?)is it about the equinox at all?
I’m just curious ‘cuz in Japan the equinoxes (春分 and 秋分) are occasions to do “ohakamairi” (ãŠå¢“å‚ã‚Š, visiting graves) which is to clean the graves and put food offerings there and stuff…
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I’m not sure what the chinese word for tomb sweeping is, so your guess is as good as mine. I’ll watch out for an article in the newspaper next week to see what it is.
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Yeah, 清明 seems to be the word for Tomb Sweeping Day.
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