celebration and the commemoration of the dead across the chinese diaspora it's called sweeping day or ching ming and in places such as taiwan and i should also add hong kong where i'm from people like to burn paper offerings for the dead return to taipei where tradition meets the twenty first century. a dream design or. complete with the perfect family. and inexpensive. these intricate models would look at home in any architect's office. instead they're being painstakingly prepared for the bomb. in taiwan these domestic dreams will all go up in smoke so the deceased can enjoy an eternity of luxury under the fourth of the often off to someone passes away these are litigious thinking that the deceased would want to buy big house and fortunes would burn these play call for eagles before on the day when he's laid to rest on through without the thought there's one thing for. burning offerings for the dead is an ancient custom in chinese culture traditionally bereaved relatives but paper money but in taiwan they're moving with modern times. now as well as houses they can have designer clothes and watc