Online tombs becoming more popular

Cyber 'burial sites' offer a chance for relatives and friends to memorialize those who passed away

BEIJING - Chinese people have started experimenting with a convenient, low-cost and low-carbon way to pay respects to the dead by just clicking a mouse, a move that became especially popular during Monday's Qingming Festival.

Since the holiday is so short, Song Qin, a Beijing-based legal consultant, cannot go back to his hometown in East China's Anhui province to pay respects to his deceased grandparents.