Memorials, Chinese sections

As communities declined remaining members often erected a variety of general memorials. In more recent times this practice has been revived by both local communities and Chinese community members.

In addition to the burial of community members it was the practice for Chinese people to also hold festive occasions such as Ching Ming at the cemetery. Ching Ming is for the purpose of remembering all the departed and around the beginning of the 20th century as community numbers declined a number of memorials to all the departed were erected such as in Moorina and Weldborough cemeteries in Tasmania and at the Cooktown Cemetery. 

In more recent times memorials have been added either by Chinese community groups with a similar motivation and/or by local communities recognising that the burials of Chinese people have been neglected or unrecognised and seeking to change this. It is often the case that the local Chinese Section no longer has any headstones and the memorial is the only recognition. This has been the case in Temora and Gayndah for example. 

In Victoria a dedicated organisation - the Victorian Chinese Memorial Foundation - were active in the early 21st century and erected a number of memorials in places such as Myrtleford and Beechworth, usually in co-operation with the local community. A handful of these memorials have been sponsored by the Chinese government and have taken a "100 years of humiliation" theme, such as that in Rookwood, Sydney and St George, Queensland.