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China Guardian Auctions, a mainland auction house specialising in Chinese artwork, will hold a two-day Spring Auction Sale Series of ceramics, painting and calligraphy including Hong Kong ink paintings at the Island Shangri-La in Central. Highlights include ink paintings by modern masters Wu Hufan, Zhang Daqian, Ren Yi and Huang Zhou, with some works expected to fetch up to HK$22 million. Work by Hong Kong artists including Liu Kuo-sung, Liu Shou-kwan, Kan Tai-keung, Luis Chan and Wucius Wong will be sold.

Today is the Ching Ming (tomb sweeping) festival and the Conservancy Association of Hong Kong will take the opportunity to give away free flowers to grave sweepers to raise public awareness of hill fire prevention. The association will be handing out blooms at the bus terminus in the Landmark North, Sheung Shui MTR. In the afternoon the Buddha's Light International Association of Hong Kong will hold a Ching Ming Buddhist service at the Hong Kong Coliseum in Hung Hom.