Tomb-sweeping Day (all souls' day)

Qing ming is a time to remember the dead and the dearly departed. More important, it is a period to honour and topay respect to one's deceased ancestors and family members. because itreinforces the ethic of filial piety, qing ming is a major chinese festival.

 

The Qingming Festival (Chinese:清明节),Clear Bright Festival,Ancestors Day or Tomb Sweeping Day is a traditional Chinese festival on the 104th day after the winter solstice (or the 15th day from the Spring Equinox),usually occurring around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar (see Chinese calendar).Astronomically it is also a solar term (See Qingming).The Qingming festival falls on the first day of the fifth solar term,named Qingming.Its name denotes a time for people to go outside and enjoy the greenery of springtime (踏青 Tàqīng,"treading on the greenery") and tend to the graves of departed ones.

Qingming has been regularly observed as a statutory public holiday in Taiwan and in the Chinese jurisdictions of Hong Kong and Macau.Its observance was reinstated as a public holiday in mainland China in 2008,after having been previously suppressed by the ruling Communist Party in 1949.

The transcription of the term Qingming may appear in a number of different forms,some of which are:
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