Tomb Sweeping Day
Chinese memorial holiday
Tomb Sweeping Day is a Chinese festival for honoring deceased ancestors, typically falling in early April.
Families visit graves to clean tombstones, pull weeds, and leave offerings of food, incense, and paper money.
The holiday, also called Qingming Festival, marks a time when the living tend to the dead and remember their lineage: Schools close for Tomb Sweeping Day.
- hell moneyRitual currency for dead
- filial pietyRespect owed to parents
- incense burningIgniting aromatic resins
- ancestor worshipReligious honoring of forebears
- willow branchesPliable tree limbs
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