Virtual Veneration A new website has dragged the traditional Chinese "Tomb-Sweeping Festival" into the age of the Internet. The China-based site, Netor.com, offers an online service facilitating one-click ancestor worship from the comfort of your living room. The Clear Brightness (qingming) festival, China's traditional day of ancestor worship observed for millennia, fell on April 4 this year. It is traditionally the time when families return to their hometowns and pay tribute to their forebears. Offerings of food are made, and paper money and other symbols of wealth burned at the graveside. But now busy urbanites can dispense with these formalities, and pay their filial dues with a simple digital alternative. Netor.com offers free online services, including lighting a candle, requesting a song, and a three-step method to leave a message for the dead. They have also built over 500 memorial "pages" for famous deceased Chinese including Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Confucius and Bruce Lee. The most popular is that for Taiwan singer Deng Lijun. The site estimates that by May it will have over 1000 memorials, making it the biggest online condolence service in Asia. An English-language version is currently under construction.