Qingming, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, is the one Chinese holiday that is also a solar term: a day of grave-tending and spring outings that binds memory of the dead to joy in the living.
Qingming, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, is the one Chinese holiday that is also a solar term: a day of grave-tending and spring outings that binds memory of the dead to joy in the living.
Every April 4th or 5th, China pauses for Qingming—the festival of sweeping ancestral graves. But it is also the solar term marking spring's arrival, when 2,500 years of ancestor worship, the Cold Food