A resident presents flowers to a monument for victims in the devastating earthquake striking southwest China's Sichuan Province May 12, 2008, in Xining, northwest China's Qinghai Province, April 4, 2009. A public memorial service was held here on Saturday for victims in last year's dissolving earthquake during the traditional Qingming Festival or Tomb-sweeping Day.

Two kids stick cards written with their best wishes to the kids in the earthquake-hit areas to a memorial wall in Suining, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 4, 2009, the day of Chinese Qingming Festival or Tomb-sweeping Day. The 18-meter long and 3-meter high memorial wall was set up here for people to express condolences to victims in the devastating earthquake striking Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008.

People present flowers to express their condolences to the victims of the Sichuan earthquake during a memorial activity held in Suining, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 4, 2009, the day of Chinese Qingming Festival or Tomb-sweeping Day. A 18-meter long and 3-meter high memorial wall was set up here for people to express condolences to victims in the devastating earthquake striking Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008.

BEICHUAN, Sichuan province, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Tears fell down her cheeks, like the rain dropping on her umbrella.

"I dreamed of my granddaughter several times," Tan Yunlan said while sobbing.

Supported by her daughter, the elderly woman gazed at a pile of rubble which used to be an apartment building in the former Beichuan county seat.

Tan's son-in-law arranged several bricks to burn incense, while her daughter took out a folded handkerchief from her bag. She opened it and placed the photo of a four-year-old girl inside, then gently placed it on the ground.

Behind the family, people walked slowly in twos and threes, holding candles or white chrysanthemums. Firecrackers would sound sporadically.

As Saturday was China's traditional Tomb Sweeping Day, survivors of the quake-leveled county returned to what's left of their homes to mourn loved ones.