Ching Ming Festival

Tomb Sweeping Day a/k/a Pure Brightness Festival or "Clear and Bright" Festival or "Pure and Light" Festival.  Honor family ancestors by leaving flowers and food at graves.  Originally held on the third day of the third Chinese lunar month, it is now held on April 5th except on leap years (when it's on April 4th).

See also:  holidays,  Hong Kong

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•  Attention to Funeral Rites and Filial Reflections
•  DiscoverHongKong - Heritage - Chinese Festivals - Ching Ming
•  Festival of Hong Kong - Ching Ming Festival
•  Ch'ing Ming Festival
•  Ching Ming Festival
•  Ho'oulu OnLine Maui Community College Student Newspaper
•  Holidays - Hong Kong
•  Chinese Festivals - Ching Ming Festival
•  Cemetery Festival
•  Ching Ming Festival
•  Chinatown Online: Qing Ming - offers brief origin, customs, and photos of the festival.
•  Ching Ming Tradition in Hawai'i - another aspects of the rituals.
•  Tomb Sweeping Day - includes videoclips of the rituals.
•  Tomb-Sweeping Day - presents videoclip of the ritual

•  Ching Ming (Tomb-Sweeping Festival)
•  Category: Regional > Asia > Taiwan > Society and Culture > Festivities
•  Chinese holiday - The Elder Day (Double Nines) - the Chinese Elder's Day, the Double-Nine Festival, is similar to the Ching-Ming in that they visit their ancestors' tombs in the hills and clean them up
•  AmCham Hong Kong - Public Holidays - Ching Ming Festival
•  Open Directory - Regional: Asia: China: Arts and Entertainment - traditional Chinese celebrations
•  Chinese Holidays - owners close down their shops for the whole week during Ching Ming Festival
•  DiscoverHongKong - Heritage - Chinese Festivals - Ching Ming - in Korean?
•  International Holidays 2001 - Ching Ming Festival Apr. 06; the day following the Ching Ming Festival Apr. 13
•  Hong Kong Information: Holidays & Festivals - Ching Ming Festival April 13, 2001
•  The Earth Calendar - 05 April 2001 - Ching Ming Festival (Day of the Dead), Macao. Ching Ming Festival, Hong Kong
•  Year 2001 holidays - April 5, Ching Ming/Tomb Sweeping Festival, Ching Ming/Tomb Sweeping Festival
• China Globe : Uniting Chinese Around the World - The Ching Ming festival, Grave-Sweeping Day is celebrated
  in April. It is also known as the "Remembrance of Ancestors Day"
•  Google Web Directory - Regional > Asia > China > Arts
•  Ching Ming Day
•  Honk Kong Consulate Hours of Operation and Holidays - closed April 5 during Ching Ming Festival
•  ITSC Digest - Computer Systems and Services Operating Hours during Ching Ming Festival (April
  2-6)
•  BRY Series Bottles For Businessman - Ching Ming Festival , also called Tomb-sweeping Day, is
  a traditional festival in China
•  Kowloon Motor Bus - routes during Ching Ming Festival

•  Ch'ing Ming Festival - China, Taiwan - April 5, 2003
•  Chung Ming (Chinese Memorial Day)

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last edited Monday, January 21, 2008