清明节前,我正好在韩国首尔。韩国清明节不放假,我与培训我的李先生约好,这一天要去见识一下他们家的扫墓活动。去李先生家前,我去花店买鲜花。花店老板得知我要去扫墓,便向我推荐一束白色的兰花,因为韩国人都喜欢用兰花祭祀。到了李先生家,他们正好往车上装东西,我看到除了几个大保温箱,还有铁锹、水桶等。我心想,想必韩国人清明扫墓跟中国人的形式差不多。去给李先生祖父母扫墓的人,还有李先生的父母、弟弟和六岁的小儿子。开车半个多小时,我们来到近郊一处干净整洁的公墓。这里的坟墓是很大的长方形,全部朝南,四边青砖砌起,上面凸起的部分长满未见绿的草。墓的间距很宽,墓前是一个写字台大小的平台,两 Before Ching Ming Festival, I was in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea’s Ching Ming Festival is not a holiday, I am an appointment with the training of my Mr. Lee, this day to go to meet their family’s grave sweeping activities. Before going to Mr. Lee, I went to the flower shop to buy flowers. The florist owner learned that I was going to the grave, and recommended a bunch of white orchids to me because Koreans like to use orchids to sacrifice. Arrived at Lee’s house, they just loaded the car with things, I saw in addition to several large incubators, as well as shovels, buckets and so on. I thought, presumably Korean Sweeping Tombs similar to the Chinese form. Mr. Li’s parents, brother and six-year-old son went to those who had graved Tombs their grandparents. Driving more than half an hour, we came to a neat neighborhood of the cemetery. The tomb here is a large rectangular, all south, surrounded by green brick, raised above the part covered with no green grass. Tomb spacing is very wide, the grave is a desk-sized platform, two