China, Jiangsu, Qidong, Qingming Festival when Chinese people honour their ancestors and deceased family members by visiting their graves or burial grounds to make offerings of fake bank notes and gold ingots which are then burned As the burning of offerings in not allowed inside most cemetries for safety reasons they are burned in the gutter outside.

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