6/19/2015 Family shrine

Our first duty on Saturday was to pay our respects at the Chinese Temple where the family graves are located.  This is there first visit since Jef's grandmother died.

We stopped at the florist where Yong has been buying her flowers for 40 years.  The proprietor is 90.  Branwen told the lady how much I liked her shop.

At the grave the kids filled buckets with water to pour over the stones.

Then they went to the temple with Yong and put incense sticks at important places and at memorials of the 1928 earthquake victims.

The inside of the temple is always incredibly smoky because of all the burning incense, which makes this sign so funny.

Back at the family site they put the flowers in the little vases and put 3 incense sticks at a time in front of each stone.  The remaining were put at all of the "neighbors ".