拜山
baai3 saan1bài shān
English
- (v.)(n.) to visit ancestral graves to pay respects by cleaning and sweeping the graves, worshipping and burning joss paper.
- to visit the grave of a relative or friend, a Chinese custom which is usually practised during Ching Ming and Chung Yeung festivals
- figuratively, to visit a prisoner
粵語 — Cantonese
- 到訪先人嘅墓地拜祭。呢個係中國習俗,而通常啲人會喺清明同重陽上山拜祭。
- 代指探監
Examples
有咩留返拜山先講!
Whatever you have to say, leave it for when paying respect to the dead.
每年我都要同屋企人返大陸拜山。
Every year I need to visit the graves with my family in Mainland China.
Sources: cc-canto, rime-cantonese, words.hk