Qingming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, one of China's traditional festivals that embodies the dual connotations of nature and culture, will fall on Thursday this year. It is not only one of the "24 ...

Have you ever heard of the Qingming (say “ching-ming”) Festival? It’s also known as Grave Sweeping Day. It is a special Chinese festival that honours family ancestors and has been celebrated for over ...

CAPITOLA — Feb. 10 marked the start of the 2024 Lunar New Year, the Year of the Dragon, and with it came a slew of celebrations worldwide as well as smaller events embracing and teaching the ...

Lamp oil prices in Singapore have risen by up to 10 per cent, and shipments of joss paper and paper offerings have also been ...

Tourists enter the Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province for sightseeing, on April 6, 2025. Photo: VCG During the Qingming Festival holiday that wrapped up on Sunday, ...

The Qingming Festival, a Chinese tradition more than 2,500 years old, brought together families, brightly costumed lion dancers and wind-whipped kites at Crown Hill’s Pavilion of Reflection on Tuesday ...

On Wednesday, Chinese will mark the Qingming Festival, when it’s traditional to pay tributes to their ancestors and the heroes who died serving their country. CCTV reporter Meng Qingsheng introduces ...

The keyword for traditional Chinese Qingming Festival, or Tomb-sweeping Day, is the Chinese character "nian," which means remembrance or to miss someone, as people consider the festival a day of ...

In ancient China, Qingming was by no means the only time when sacrifices were made to ancestors. In fact such ceremonies were held very frequently, about once every two weeks, in addition to other ...

Qingming Festival, means clear and bright in Chinese, is the day for mourning the dead. It falls in early April every year. It corresponds with the onset of warmer weather, the start of spring plowing ...