A Chinese Traditional Festival - Tomb Sweeping Festival

Ching Ming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, also known as the Tomb Sweeping Festival. It has a history of 2,500 years and is a festival that began in the Han Dynasty.

The Tomb Sweeping Festival is a very important festival in the traditional customs of the ancients, and it is also the most important festival for offering sacrifices to ancestors and sweeping tombs. The most important activity on Qingming Festival is going to the grave to worship ancestors, deceased relatives, and friends. 

On this day, thousands of Chinese families go to the cemetery to sweep graves. We will pray for our ancestors, clear the tombstones for our ancestors, and offer some things to our ancestors, such as food, spiritual money (paper money) and so on. During this period, people will eat some traditional foods such as Qing tuan, barley grass and so on.

In addition, Tomb Sweeping Festival is also the first day of the fifth solar term in the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, which is the fifteenth day after the spring equinox, usually on April 4th or April 5th of a year. At this time, it is already spring, and all things are recovering. People often take this opportunity to go out for picnics, hiking, kite flying, willow tree planting and other outdoor activities.

Tomb Sweeping Festival is a kind of recognition and respect of traditional Chinese culture. This is a culture, a habit. If you are interested in Chinese traditional culture, you can also contact us POWRGATHER. We can provide you with a variety of products, such as post-it notes, tapes, stickers, etc., printed with Chinese-style patterns, and you will surely find a product that you are satisfied with.

Finally, POWERGATHER brings you a very classic ancient poem - "Chingming"

A drizzling rain falls like tears on the Mourning Day.

The mourner's heart is going to break on his way.

Where can a wineshop be found to drown his sad hours?

A cowherd points to a cot' mid apricot flowers.