As I walked around the cemetery, lots of names were familiar. It was an amazing feeling seeing a name, one that meant nothing to me seven or eight years ago, and to suddenly recognise it, and know a little bit of their story, and how it fit in with mine. #ChingMing

Bumped into a family having a barbecue meal with their ancestors too #ChingMing

Paid my respects to my forebears today. Visited some Great Grandparents, Grandparents, Great Aunts and Uncles, and Aunt.

Tung Jung Association Memorial at Karori Cemetery.

#ChingMing

Happy #QingMing / #ChingMing 🧹

Wong Tann operated his market garden in Newtown, on Mansfield Road, in the 1870s #ChingMing
https://wellingtonchinesehistory.fandom.com/wiki/Wong_Tann

Born in Canton and living in Hong Kong Ching Fan arrived to New Zealand in 1898 aboard the SS Wakatipu. Before disembarking, she married Chin Ting. They successfully applied to have Ching Fan's £100 Poll Tax refunded. #ChingMing
https://wellingtonchinesehistory.fandom.com/wiki/Ching_Fan

The New Zealand Herald reported that a Chinese woman, Shee Ming (33) passed away in Wellington Hospital on 16 January 1923, after falling from an upper storey of a Taranaki Street shop the day before #ChingMing
https://wellingtonchinesehistory.fandom.com/wiki/Shee_Ming

Ng Bickleen Fong wearing a red silk Chinese tunic. Born in Canton, she came to New Zealand in 1939. Her father had orchards outside Blenheim. She attended Marlborough College, Queen Margaret College in Wellington & Otago University. #ChingMing
https://virtualexhibit.marlboroughmuseum.org.nz/pp5/m_express/mex_vex12/CB9A5B5D-01CA-4868-ACC2-159225833350.htm

From the Wellington Chinese Association:

The following local Chinese county associations are holding their annual Ching Ming activities on the following dates for those interested in attending.
#ChingMing #Wellington #NewZealand #Chinese