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Qingming Festival is the one day a year where many Chinese people visit cemeteries to pay their respects to their ancestors, typically by praying, cleaning the graves, or leaving offerings.

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But if you're too lazybusy to make it down, one cemetery is offering to do your duty for you -- and livestream it as proof.

The Yuhuatai Cemetery in Nanjing has started to offer its services on China's largest social media platform, WeChat.

Customers can register and pay online, and will later receive a password to watch the livestream at an assigned time.

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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Wu Hong/Epa/REX/Shutterstock (7930028h) Chinese People Bring Flowers to the Gravesite of Their Deceased Relatives to Mark the Qingming Festival at the Babaoshan Cemetery in Beijing China 04 April 2016 the Qingming Festival Also Know As the Tomb-sweeping Day is Marked by Chinese People by Going to the Cemetery to Cleaning Up Tombs Bringing Flowers and Making Offerings to Their Ancestors China Beijing China Qingming Festival - Apr 2016 Credit: Wu Hong/Epa/REX/Shutterstock Mandatory Credit: Photo by David Chang/Epa/REX/Shutterstock (7933248d) Taiwanese Burn Paper Money at an Ancestral Tomb at a Cemetery in Yilan County Northern Taiwan 04 April 2015 Ahead of the 05 April Tomb-sweeping Day Chinese All Over the World Observe Tomb-sweeping Day Or Qingming Festival by Cleaning Up Ancestral Tombs Burning Paper Money and Incense Sticks and Making Offering of Food and Fruits to Ancestors Taiwan Yilan County Taiwan Tomb Sweeping Day - Apr 2015 Credit: David Chang/Epa/REX/Shutterstock

But the service has drawn much flak.

"Somethings cannot be replaced by others. This is something related to your ancestors, your loved ones...and you're using a substitute?" said one netizen on Weibo.

"You're entrusting a stranger to your loved ones' graves and paying them money. Really, do you not feel ashamed?" another asked.

"Don't bother having a grave. Just upload a photo on a website and visit it every year," one person said, sarcastically.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Uncredited/AP/REX/Shutterstock (6778272g) A woman prayed to pay respects to her ancestor during the Qingming Festival outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, . Qingming Festival or Tomb-Sweeping Day is an annual festival where Chinese people honor the dead Malaysia Tomb Sweeping Day, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Credit: Uncredited/AP/REX/Shutterstock

Qingming falls on April 4, and is typically celebrated in countries such as China, Malaysia and Singapore.

The tradition dates back almost a thousand years, with hundreds of people flocking to ancestral graves to pay their respects every year.

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