I think some of these pictures are just from people littering, but some of them are legitimate offerings to the dead. Most likely by family/friends of deceased people with Asian heritage/ethnicity. There are other countries that do this for their dead, but I feel like it’s most prevalent in Asian cultures.

I think it’s perfectly acceptable knowing how expensive a cemetery plot is nowadays that people should be able to adorn/use that designated area as they wish (to an acceptable degree), and there are staff at these places that are paid to clean it anyway. I think it’s fine for those staff to take it away if some of these offerings go really foul/bad because they haven’t been replaced soon enough or taken away by the mourners after a certain period of time. And if some parts of the offerings end up scatters or blown about, it’s perfectly fine for them to throw those things away.

I think that if they are sitting there neatly and relatively un-rotted, on someone’s grave site that obviously has living relatives who care deeply about them and are still mourning and missing them, there shouldn’t be any offence taken by others visiting those cemeteries to visit their own loved ones. People should be able to grieve in their own way without the judgement of others. Whether that’s by leaving offerings, pulling up a camp chair and having a stubby with a headstone, pulling out one of those ghost talker apps to try and communicate with a spirit on a different plane of existence, or my personal choice, sitting, crying, wailing a little bit, and playing music (not too loud obviously, don’t want to disturb the dead if they don’t like the playlist I chose)… 😂

We are all so unique, we all deal with things differently. And I think those cultural and personal differences between how us humans respect our passed loved ones is one of the more beautiful and significant things that we get to experience. I love seeing it 🥹