Views: 10 Author: Site Editor Publish Time: 2017-04-01 Origin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qingming_Festival
The Qingming Festival also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day in English, 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.
What do we do on Qingming Festival?
ü Tomb-sweeping
Celebrants to remember and honour their ancestors at grave sites. Young and old pray before the ancestors, sweep the tombs and offer food, tea, wine, chopsticks, joss paper, and/or libations to the ancestors.
ü Cuju(Football)
Cuju is similar to today's football. In Ancient times, people love to play Cuju in Qingming.
ü Gamecock
It is a popular game in Tang Dynasty.
ü Hiking
People will go hiking in Qingming due to it is spring time.
What do we eat on Qingming?
ü Qingtuan
In the mainland, the holiday is associated with the consumption of qingtuan, green dumplings made of glutinous rice and barley grass.