JOHOR BARU: The long weekend in Johor has provided families with an early start to Qing Ming or Tomb Sweeping Day.
Singer Alex Lim, 43, said he was pleased to find a smaller crowd when he turned up at the Johor Baru Tiong-Hua Association’s memorial park here to pay respects to his deceased parents yesterday.
Qing Ming is a major festival in the Chinese calendar where families will gather and clean the graves of their departed loved ones and ancestors. “Larger crowds are usually expected on weekends, making it difficult to get a parking spot as the road is narrow as well. The long weekend in Johor started on the first day of Ramadan, which was a Thursday, as the state has always marked the start of the fasting month with a public holiday.
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