Thursday 4th was Ching Ming festival – so yes,
that’s right, we got another public
holiday here in HK. I should really have a picture here of the big Chinese
graveyards set on the hills and the business that goes on during Ching Ming. It
means something close to ‘clean bright’ festival; so it’s a day for visiting
shrines and your relatives graves and giving them a bit of a sweep and a clean.
Most exotically, everyone buys up paper ‘hell’ money to bury and/or burn around
the graves, so that their family has some cash in the afterlife.
Sounds like interesting pictures, right? Well, Claire and I
were off running again (they seem to do one every public holiday) on the island
of Lantau, and I didn’t want to lug the camera all the way the grave yard on
our route.
So instead, we have this amazing sign from near the ferry
jetty. It expressly lays out dangerous methods of fishing that must not be
practiced there (which intriguingly suggests it once was – see below and imagine the scenes). Trawling nets, drag
nets on the right – so far so normal, ad yep, pretty bad. But the others are
eye-popping, and their accompanying pictures pretty funny despite the cruel
subject matter.
What?! You mean I can’t catch fish with dynamite?! Or with a
massive hoover?! Or chuck poison in the sea and scoop up the fish! Or shove a massive
electrical wire in the sea and harvesting the frazzled fish! Outrageous!
For a man who doesn't trust anything from the sea, I feel the sign was made for you!
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