Departed offered taste of modern China

Those who died 30 years ago in China may have missed out on the country's "Great Leap Forward" from a business backwater to the second-largest economy in the world, but their offspring today have ensured the departed will have no regrets.

Millions of Chinese went to the graveyards of loved ones on Wednesday to observe Tomb Sweeping Day, a traditional Chinese holiday.

But while many still burned traditional offerings, such as paper money, cakes and fruit, others decided that the dead should get a taste of the enormous material gains, and perhaps the decaying morals, of today's Chinese society.