Qingming Festival – Tomb-Sweeping Day
The Qingming or Ching Ming Festival, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day in English,[1][2] is a traditional Chinese festival on the first day of the fifth solar term of the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar. This makes it the 15th day after the Spring Equinox, either 4 or 5 April in a given year.[3][4][5] Other common translations include Chinese Memorial Day and Ancestors’ Day. Qingming has been regularly observed as a statutory public holiday in China. In Taiwan, the public holiday is [...]
