Also known as the Grave-sweeping or Spring Remembrance, Ching Ming, is when Chinese families show their respect by visiting the graves of their ancestors to clear away weeds, touch up gravestone inscriptions and make offerings of wine and fruit.
This day comes from a story of Liubang,a famous king in history.
When he won the war and became a king, he went back to his country with honor. Liu Pang wanted to express his respect and appreciation for his parents, so he went to his parents’ tombs to burn incense. However, he couldn’t find their tombs because of the war. Liu Pang felt very sad, but he didn’t give up.
Suddenly, he got an idea. He took out a sheet of paper, tore it to many pieces, and threw it into sky. At that time, he praised, “ God, Please help me to find my parents’ tombs. Let these small pieces of paper freeze at one place. Lead me to find the tombs.” It was so strange that those small pieces of paper stop at one place. Finally Liu Pang found his parents’ tombs by following these papers. That’s why we put some pieces of color papers under small stones on the ancestors’ tombs.
In these years, American, Korean and Japanese culture become more and more popular in China. more and more people celebrate X-mas, teenagers dress up like Korean and Japanese,
From this year, China set a one-day off to celebrate this festival. It means China government realized that we should pay more attention to our culture instead of the western culture.
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Yes, the traditonal festivals in China have some significant meaning. This is why the goverment change the rules of the "Golden week" in may.
I just remembered that today is Tomb-Sweeping Day yesterday because my mother told me on the internet. Bless everyone~
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