A funeral

Feng Yi's grandma passed away last week, and we are attending her funeral in Chiayi today.
Due to traffic congestion, a normally six hour trip lasted nine hours......

Her grandma is 88 years old, prediseased by Feng Yi's mom and dad a few years ago. In this video, you will see the funeral possession from the chapel to the crematorium......

This is the first time for me to attend a traditional Chinese funeral, very different indeed. This next video shows the chambers of the crematoriums, there were six in total. Each corpse inside the coffin has a number, and must wait in line for the chambers. There were about ten waiting when we got there. It was a hot day, not the best day to be next to the incinerators. The smoke and fumes were just too much, so we left early. Her offsprings went back later in the afternoon to receive the ashes kept inside an urn, and the urn is placed at the memorial tower within the property which is government owned. This next video shows the chambers....

There was a lunch after the funeral, and we stayed an extra night so that we didn't have to rush home. Next day on the way home, we stopped in Lugang, an old harbor town which is very quaint and has historical values. The old town in this video was built during the Ching dynasty over 130 years ago, and has been preserved under government designation. It was a time capsule.....

An old European style mansion is now a museum, and we spent two hours inside. It was awesome. It is similar to Victoria's Craigdarroch castle. It housed a local baron and his family. He was one of the early Chinese settlers here in Taiwan, arriving from mainland China 150 years ago.

It was an excellent side trip. We arrived home six hours later.