Wading worship
It has already been the commonplace that people go tomb-sweeping every year would bring buckets, rain boots and wade to worship.
Flooded ancestral grave
Ancestral graves always suffer from flooding when the rain season and typhoon arrive. It is such a disaster for both the living and the dead.
Is it mud burial or sea burial?
Due to the subsidence , the cemetery of the ancestors was swallowed by the sea, making it difficult to tell whether it was mud burial or sea burial.
Even the home of the gods is flooded
It is said, "There is incense burning there, there is blessing there." (Worship brings protections) However, if we keep pumping water to raise fish and causing the subsidence, Villiage god will have no place to live. Will he bless us in the future?
The ancestors of the tomb in the water
In coastal area with serious subsidence, many of the graves set in the lower terrain are almost submerged in water every time the heavy rain or sea tide come. As time goes by, the stagnant water cannot be receded and the graves being in the water for a long time, and eventually, we’ll have difficulties to identify the identity of the dead.
Cemetery in the water
It’s the scene that may be regarded as a spectacle in the metropolitan area. However, it has become a picture of local residents living in subsidence towns. Excessive pumping of groundwater will not only lost the future but also bury the past moment.
Wading to sweep the grave
All the tombs were soaked in water. In every Tomb Sweeping Day, people who rushed to sweep the graves used wooden boards to build bridges to pass through the water, otherwise, they would wading through the water.
Cemetery in the water
Hundreds of graves have been soaked in water for many years. How can their descendants go to the ancestral tombs to sweep them ?
Blessed people live in blessed land?
The grave in the water looks extremely bleak...
Even the home of the gods is flooded
It is said, "There is incense burning there, there is blessing there," but if we continue to pump water to raise fish, causing the strata to sink, Villiage god will have no place to live. Will he bless us?