As Chinese villagers gathered at the grave site to worship, they also to eat the soil of the shrine.
Yes, that's right, we're talking everybody eats the dirt, old people, children, middle aged people, even pregnant women are eating it.
Sick people eat the soil, and so do the healthy ones.
This is when people visit the graves of their forefathers, pray at a shrine for the Buddhist King of Remedies and eat the soil surrounding the holy temple. The festival is an outgrowth of Hanshi Day.
People believe the soil cures sickness, and this is a tradition that's been kept going for generations.
So many villagers eat this soil, they even ate most of the soil covering the coffin of the"King of Remedies."
This is the Tomb Sweeping Festival (also known as the Qingming festival) which dates back more than 2500 years and is always held on the 104th day after the winter solstice, which usually occurs around April 5th.
