New Year's Day.
There is a tradition of ancestor worship in Jiang Tao's hometown.
Honoring the forefathers symbolizes not forgetting the grace of life and growth during the happiest festival of the year.
There's no complicated ceremony, it's simply visiting the graves.
Burn some spirit money for the ancestors, and bring some offerings.
Ancestor worship typically takes place between 8 a.m. and 12 p.m.,
when the yang energy between heaven and earth is strongest, enhancing one's own yang energy.
After having breakfast at his parents' house,
Jiang Tao, Jiang Wen, and his two nephews, Jiang Shijie and Jiang Shaojie, the four men of the family, set off to visit the graves.
His mother, Tian Xiaomei, busied herself at home lighting lanterns.
Xu Li and Jiang Bing took Jiang Xue to visit uncles and elders in the village to pay New Year's greetings.
The ancestral graves of the Jiang Family Manor villagers are all in the farmland outside the village.
