Filial love: The Tan family paying homage to their departed loved ones for the Qing Ming festival at the Batu Gantung cemetery in Penang.Pix by GARY CHEN/The Star/ 2 April 2017.
GEORGE TOWN: For the past seven decades, the Tan family has been faithfully observing a tradition to gather at the tomb of their ancestors for Qing Ming.
Thirty nine of them from five generations – the oldest being 85 years old and the youngest, an 18-month-old toddler – were at the Batu Gantung cemetery here yesterday for the yearly ritual.
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