’掃’墓/Cemetery

今日有成19度, 可以淨着短袖T 週圍行.咁好天,約咗朋友去 中央墳場’掃’墓. (我係幫手清潔,除草)

It was 19C today.  I could go out with a summer T shirt.  In this nice weather, I helped my friend to clean his family's grave.

墳場實在好大.如果揸車入去要俾2.20 euro.

The cemetery is very big.  If you go in by car, you need to pay 2.20 euro.

呢度興一家人葬喺一個墓

And the grave is for the whole family.

而啲墓分開有: 私有同租用. 租用嘅每十年交租一次. 私有都唔係永久擁有. 如果後繼無人,冇後人打理. 避免死人霸死地,管理處會放個牌喺嗰墓度(意思: 請保持你嘅使用權, 請聯絡...)

Here people either own the grave or rent the space.  Rental is payable every 10 years.  When you own a grave, it doesn't mean you can have it permanently.  If people don't have any offspring or nobody to take care of the grave, the managment office will put a sign onto the grave. (meaning: Please maintain your right of using the space, contact us....)

過咗指定時間冇後人回復就會被...........鋸斷墓碑

After the specified date and still nobody has answered, the gravestone will be cut off

然後起骨. 吉位就會租俾有需要人士(已經唔會再賣墓地).

and the bones will be taken out.  The space will be rented to other people then. (They don't put it on sale anymore.)

我今日除咗幫手清潔,除草,仲有種花

Besides cleaning, I also help planting flower.

如果啲後人唔想自己做咁多嘢, 可以搵公司代勞. 呢啲就係有公司打理

If you're too lazy to do it yourself, you can hire a company to do that for you.  These are managed by these two companies.

幫你種花 and they planted the flower for you.

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