I am wondering why my mum tells me to buy sugar canes to place on top of the tomb of my ancestors when I go for Qing Ming. What I do is to buy one long cane and have the lady cut them into four parts. I'd place two parts on the top of my grandpa's grave and the other two on the common graves of my other ancestors. Since the Chinese word for sugar cane is Kum Chair (literally meaning with gold to lend), I hazard to guess that placing them there would remind the ancestors to bless the descendants with so much wealth luck as to have more than enough to lend to others. Am I right? Anyone knows?
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