After Yi Chang, we took a 19-hour train overnight train ride to Beijing. We had "soft sleeper" tickets (ruanwo), which is better than "hard sleeper" (yingwo). In hard sleeper you are in a compartment with 6 bunks (3 and 3), there's little space for luggage, and we are told the beds are hard. In soft sleeper, there are four softish (by Chinese standards) beds in a compartment, and there's lots more storage space. Since there were four of us on the trip at this point, it was nice and private.
Early April is "Tomb Sweeping Day", a holiday in China where people go tend to the tombs of their ancestors. From the train, we saw several places where the tombs had been decorated this way:
