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People clean the graves and burn items such as joss sticks and paper offerings - sometimes quite large ones - to honour the dead and transmit money and other goods to loved ones in the afterlife.

An impromptu memorial of flowers, a black-and-white photograph and singed cigarettes — a stand-in for joss sticks — formed at the entrance of the hospital where he had died.

He visited Longhua Temple in Shanghai and was deeply moved by mounds of ash left from burning joss sticks.

According to the announcer, she presented the king with a tray of flowers and joss sticks, and in return was bestowed traditional gifts associated with royal power.

Early Tuesday, the first day of the year of the pig, hundreds lined up outside famous temples to burn the first joss sticks of the year, expecting it to bring them good luck.