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Wedding Dresses and Black Lace Bras for ... the dead? Supersticious members of the Hong Kong community are quickly buying paper wedding dresses and racy undergarments looking ahead to the Ching Ming festival. During this festival, likenesses of items that loved ones would like in heavan are burned. Also on the shopping list - paper servants and mobile phones.

Ching Ming is also known as the Grave-sweeping or Spring Remembrance, Ching Ming ("clear and bright"), is when Chinese families show their respect by visiting the graves of their ancestors to clear away weeds, touch up gravestone inscriptions and make offerings of wine and fruit.

The date is indicated on the Chinese calendar with the two characters: ching, meaning pure or clean, and ming, meaning brightness. Combined together, Ching Ming means clean and just. This date is also indicated on traditional Japanese calendars, where their culture has a similar observance. In Korean culture, the observance is known as Hansik.

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