Cheng Beng is an important occasion for family members to get together especially for grandchildren of the deceased grandparents.
This is the time of the year when family members who lived in different parts of the country meet up at the tombs of the departed parents or relatives for the traditional sweeping and cleaning of the graves (although nowadays these tasks has been taken over by paid workers especially in privately managed cemeteries) and prayers at the site.
With addition of the younger generations, visiting the graves of grandparents is an opportunity for the younger ones to meet up and learn to carry out the tasks during this important event for the Chinese.
Every kindergarten children can help out the preparation for Cheng Beng. One of the more easy and interesting task is the folding of joss papers in "gold and silver " nuggets. This origami style paperfolding job can be performed by those kids and they do love it, albeit in the initial stage. But when the "nuggets" that are required to be folded runs into the thousands, these kids will cleverly devised excuses to avoid doing it.
Anyway, those in the joss paper and prayer items business are surely very good copycats in producing new items each year and they are very advanced too. Sometimes I wondered what will happen if we put these people in the R&D of the MNCs. Maybe some scientists will lose their job!
Anyhow, I was wondering with the internet being part and parcle in the daily lives of our human realm, what will be the broadband penetration in the other realms? Maybe someone will develop a software and a domain name for those in different realms to connect to each other and surf realm wide web? What about "burning" an email address to those in the other realm who wanna go online? Any takers?
