Color these tombs green, or else
By Jane Chen |
July 23, 2010, Friday
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PAINT your tombs green, or they'll be bombed.
That was the message for villagers in a southwest China county.
As a result, dozens of tombs on the mountains along a road in Yiliang County of Yunnan Province's Kunming City have been painted green. And some were covered up with green or black cloth to conceal the originally white structures, yesterday's Chuncheng Evening News reported.
Villagers told the newspaper that village officials issued the decree 10 days ago and threatened that the tombs would be blasted and destroyed if they didn't follow. Village officials told them that the decree was passed down from superiors who said the dotted tombs were a big eyesore for the local landscape.
"It is for the first time that I've ever seen tombs get painted in my 60 years' life," a villager who declined to be named told the newspaper.
Setting up a tomb is to make the ancestors known to their offspring, rather than being covered up, he complained.
Fearing their tombs would be blown up, villagers had to devote time to covering their tombs despite the busy time for farming, he added.
That was the message for villagers in a southwest China county.
As a result, dozens of tombs on the mountains along a road in Yiliang County of Yunnan Province's Kunming City have been painted green. And some were covered up with green or black cloth to conceal the originally white structures, yesterday's Chuncheng Evening News reported.
Villagers told the newspaper that village officials issued the decree 10 days ago and threatened that the tombs would be blasted and destroyed if they didn't follow. Village officials told them that the decree was passed down from superiors who said the dotted tombs were a big eyesore for the local landscape.
"It is for the first time that I've ever seen tombs get painted in my 60 years' life," a villager who declined to be named told the newspaper.
Setting up a tomb is to make the ancestors known to their offspring, rather than being covered up, he complained.
Fearing their tombs would be blown up, villagers had to devote time to covering their tombs despite the busy time for farming, he added.
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