How Beijing celebrates Tomb-Sweeping Day
CHINA – The centuries old Tomb-Sweeping Day or Qingming Festival falls on 4 April this year.
CHINA – The centuries old Tomb-Sweeping Day or Qingming Festival falls on 4 April this year.
JAPAN – Yumiko Nakajima, a woman in her 70s, is selecting her grave. But instead of choosing a hunk of stone in a
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UK – We’re lucky in Britain not to face the kind of restrictions over death ceremonies in place elsewhere, so it’s
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‘If these mortuary jewels were as a whole very ugly, what shall be said of the hideous lumps of crudely manufactured jet, which