Tomb sweeping day
Shanghai, China
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An elderly man sits huddled in a wheelchair as he visits a cemetery in the outskirts of Shanghai on Tomb Sweeping Day.
The festival, which falls on April 4 this year, is a time for the Chinese to remember and honour their ancestors. Participants tend their deceased relatives’ graves, and sometimes leave offerings like food or fake money.
Fake money and offerings of food lie on a tomb on the day of the festival.
A woman hangs a yellow ribbon on a tree in remembrance of a dead relative.
A man repaints a dead family member's tombstone.
A woman cries in front of her relative’s gravestone.
A man looks down at a family member’s grave.
Another mourner tends a gravestone.
Offerings of rice, fish and other food are left on a tomb in Shanghai.
