Each year for the tomb sweeping festival, Wuhan resident Dai Jinfeng drives with her mother to a nearby cemetery to pay respects to their ancestors. The coronavirus has changed that ritual this year.
Fresh chrysanthemum flowers, a traditional Chinese funeral flower, lie on the banks of the Yangtze River on the eve of the Tomb-sweeping Festival in Wuhan, Hubei province, the epicentre of China's coronavirus disease outbreak, in Wuhan ,China, April 3, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song
Those restrictions are arguably the strictest in Wuhan, which has been ravaged more than anywhere in China since the virus first emerged there last year. As of Friday, 2,567 people in the city had died of the virus while 50,008 were infected. “She keeps asking me whether I’m going back,” the 40-year-old the property agent told Reuters this week as she broke into tears. “I don’t dare to call her any more because the tomb sweeping festival is coming up ... and it is especially important to the elderly.”Still, some in Wuhan found alternative ways to commemorate the festival and find solace in spite of those restrictions.
“There is an epidemic but this is China’s tradition, we can’t cast it aside,” said a man as he burned four stacks of joss paper, standing alongside his wife.
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