What is the significance of the Qingming Festival?
What is the significance of the Qingming Festival?
Qingming Festival, also called Tomb Sweeping Day or, literally, ‘Pure Brightness’ Festival in English, is a traditional Chinese festival and an important day for most people (including the Han Chinese and some of China’s 55 other ethnic minorities) to go and sweep tombs and commemorate their ancestors.
When can pray Ching Ming?
April 4th
When is Ching Ming? Ching Ming, Qingming, the Remembrance of Ancestors Day or Grave-Sweeping Day takes place on the 15th day after the Spring Equinox. This means it usually takes place on April 4th or April 5th in the western calendar.
Which other countries have a Qingming equivalent?
Tomb-sweeping Day is not only observed in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, but also in other countries with large Chinese communities, like Malaysia and Singapore. In any normal year, the Qingming Festival is a time for reflection.
What is the Hanshi Festival in China?
In the Tang Dynasty (618-907), it was designated as a national holiday. As the Hanshi Festival is one to two days ahead of the Qingming festival, they gradually got merged with one another. After the Song Dynasty (960-1279), cold food did not remain a necessity on this day, and over the next 100 years, fire wasn’t forbidden any longer.
What is Hanshi (Hanshi)?
As Hanshi is a day to pay tribute to family members or friends who have passed away, poets in ancient China contributed a large number of poems to this subject to express their homesickness or love for their loved ones. In The Complete Anthology of Tang Poetry, there are more than 300 poems on this subject matter.
When does the festival of trees start?
Festival of Trees officially kicks-off on Monday, Nov 16th at businesses and locations throughout The Battlefords, as sponsors throughout our communities turn on the lights of Christmas and officially start the Christmas season!
When is the Battleford Festival of trees 2019?
Join the “Merry & Bright” Festival of Trees Christmas tour throughout The Battlefords! From Monday, Nov 16th to Friday, Dec 4th, you will have the opportunity to view and bid on the beautifully decorated trees, wreaths and accent pieces on display at businesses and locations within our communities.
