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Films screened for ancestors at Chinese cemetery during festival

Only a few people attend an open air movie showing organised by the Chinese Association of Phitsanulok at a local cemetery to mark Qingming, the Ching Ming Festival. The films are shown to entertain the spirits of ancestors buried there. (Photo: Chinnawat Singha)

PHITSANULOK: The Chinese Association of Phitsanulok has been showing open air movies at a Chinese cemetery in Muang district as part Qingming, the Ching Ming Festival.

A large screen was set up inside the Phitsanulok Chinese cemetery. Over three days, from April 3-5, two popular Chinese films are being screened each night. These are said to be for the entertainment of the spirits of the ancestors of Chinese Thais buried at the cemetery.

Attendance on the first two nights…

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