By Macarena Vidal Liy (El Pais)
The faces of the deceased, engraved in the gray of the stones, observe serenely from their black tombstones, so new that they sparkle.
In front of some of them, we can see incense sticks being consumed, signs of a recent visit.
On others, a small stone holds bundles of banknotes so that, as Chinese tradition dictates, the dead can use them in the afterlife.
Several of them display a color photo, also attached with adhesive tape.
On this slope of Biandanshan Hill, where this cemetery, the largest in Wuhan, is located, most of those buried died during the same months of this year: January, February and March.
Here was the peak of the pandemic.
Many have died in their sixties, fifties or even younger.
The Covid is not mentioned in the epitaphs.
No need to say, however, that it was he who took most of these victims.
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