The Qingming Festival (Traditional Chinese: 清明節; Simplified Chinese: 清明节; Pinyin: Qīngmíngjié}}, Ching Ming Festival in Hong Kong, Vietnamese: Tết Thanh Minh), Clear Bright Festival, Ancestors Day or Tomb Sweeping Day is a traditional Chinese festival on the 104th day after the winter solstice (or the fifteenth day from the Spring Equinox), usually occurring around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar. Astronomically it is also a solar term. 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.
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| - The Qingming Festival (Traditional Chinese: 清明節; Simplified Chinese: 清明节; Pinyin: Qīngmíngjié}}, Ching Ming Festival in Hong Kong, Vietnamese: Tết Thanh Minh), Clear Bright Festival, Ancestors Day or Tomb Sweeping Day is a traditional Chinese festival on the 104th day after the winter solstice (or the fifteenth day from the Spring Equinox), usually occurring around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar. Astronomically it is also a solar term. 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.
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- Apr.4th, 5th or 6th
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| - Cleaning and sweeping of graves, Ancestor worship, offering food to deceased, burning ghost money
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| - All Souls Day
- Tomb Sweeping Day
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| - The Qingming Festival (Traditional Chinese: 清明節; Simplified Chinese: 清明节; Pinyin: Qīngmíngjié}}, Ching Ming Festival in Hong Kong, Vietnamese: Tết Thanh Minh), Clear Bright Festival, Ancestors Day or Tomb Sweeping Day is a traditional Chinese festival on the 104th day after the winter solstice (or the fifteenth day from the Spring Equinox), usually occurring around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar. Astronomically it is also a solar term. 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:
* Qingming
* Qing Ming
* Qing Ming Jie
* Ching Ming (official in Hong Kong)
* Ching Ming Chieh
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