Chinese Graves and Burner at Nyngan Cemetery, Heritage burial site in Nyngan, Australia

The Chinese Graves and Burner at Nyngan Cemetery stands on Cemetery Road in Nyngan, in the Orana region of New South Wales. The site holds a group of grave markers with inscriptions in Chinese and English, the oldest dating to 1913, beside a modest brick burner about 2,100 millimetres tall, built for burning offerings to the dead.

Chinese workers arrived during the 1850s gold rush and established a community in the Nyngan area. The documented burials at this site span from 1913 to 1924.

The burner served for ritual burning of paper facsimiles of money, clothing, possessions and houses, passed to the spirit realm for the deceased's afterlife. The Chinese saying "upon the roots of the tree rest falling leaves" expressed the wish to be buried near one's home village; as most migrants were single men, family or village associations took on returning exhumed bones to China.

The graves and burner stand in the Nyngan cemetery on Cemetery Road, in the Orana region of New South Wales. The cemetery was established in the 1850s, though its first recorded burial dates to 1878. The site is owned by NSW Land Registry Services and was added to the State Heritage Register on 13 March 2009.

The brick burner was specifically designed for Chinese funeral rites and reflects how the community adapted traditional practices to their new location. Such structures are uncommon in rural Australia, making this site a rare example of early Chinese settlement inland.