Grave sweeping

To cut down the crowds traveling during the May golden week this year, China shortened the formerly weeklong May Day holiday, and in a controversial move, designated several traditional festivals as public holidays. One new official holiday is 清明节, Qingmingjie, observed by visiting and cleaning ancestors' graves.

My recent ancestors aren't buried in China, and the ancestors of my grave-sweeping partner-in-crime Jerry are "dead so long no one sweeps their graves," so we instead visited the Longhua Martyrs Cemetery in Shanghai, a site that commemorates the lives of murdered Chinese Communists. The sculptures are remarkably Soviet.

Nearby Longhua Temple:
Gratuitous Ferragamo exhibit: