Taiping - Qingming or Ching Meng Festival

Qingming Jie is known as Clear Brightness Festival and Tending Graves
or Tomb Sweeping Day ( Kwangtung cemetery in Taiping)

Qingming denotes a time for people to go outside and enjoy the greenery

of springtime and also to tend to the graves of departed.

Its significance is to remember & honour ancestors.

Qingming Jie - held on 15th day of Spring equinox- usually falls on April 5
on Gregorian calendar except on leap years. In 2008 it occurs on April 4.

Taiping Joss Paper Shops

Another shop in Taiping selling joss paper and worship items.
Most Chinese burn paper paraphernalia to enable their
departed loved ones to live comfortably in the netherworld.

Paper dresses, paper shoes, paper jewelery, paper cosmetics etc.

Goodies for the departed. Chinese believe that burning them
will reappear as the real stuff in the netherworld for their
loved ones to use and enjoy.

The Chinese believe there is a netherworld. There are many shops
in Taiping selling joss paper houses, paper cars, paper TV sets,
paper clothes, paper shoes, paper jewelery etc.

Maybank was located here along Jalan Taming Sari (Main Road)
before it moved to its new office at Jalan Panggung Wayang

Taiping Central Market (pork section) was built in 1884.

LAP building at Jalan Muzium

Elegant Old Buildings

Old mansion along Jalan Ong Saik.. (no longer standing)

Beautiful government quarters besides the old mansion along Jalan Ong Saik

Drainage and Irrigation Department building (JPS) along Jalan Muzium

Schools- Centres of Excellence

SM Treacher Methodist (1889) at Jalan Muzium

SM Convent along Jalan Convent

SM St.George at Jalan Stesen

SR King Edward VII (1883) at Jalan Stesen

SR King Edward VII (1883) - view from Jalan Ong Saik

Pre-war house decorated with Chinese motifs. It's situated along Jalan Stesen

Eng Lee Kopitiam - Jalan Stesen

Ching Yuan Association - Jalan Pasar

Bangunan Agama Islam at Jalan muzium

Chin Woo Association at Jalan Tokong

Ceylon Association (1899) - Ceylonese Tamils came to work in the civil service and
build the railways. The association was founded in 1899 and located at Station road.