Qingming Festival: What is Qingming Festival? | How to Celebrated it in China? & Story (2024)

The Qingming Festival/Ching Ming Festival is also known as the ‘Pure Bright Festival’, and ‘Tomb Sweeping Day’. In Chinese, it's 清明节. For the Chinese, it is a time to commemorate their ancestors and also a time to go on spring outings. It is one of the four traditional festivals in China. The other three are the Chinese New Year, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival.
It falls on either Apr. 4, 5, or 6 each year. Chinese usually have a 3-day holiday. The date of the Qingming Festival in 2024 is April 4.
In this video, let’s dig deep into the history and origin of the Qingming Festival, its story, activities, tradition, food, and all other parts of this traditional festival you need to know.
00:00 ​ - Introduction: What is the Qingming Festival?
What are the dates of the Qingming Festival in 2024
00:24​ - Qingming Festival is one of the 24 solar terms.
00:42​ - What is the History of the Qingming Festival? (Cold Food Festival
and Shangsi Festival)
02:29 - What is the Story of the Tomb-Sweeping Day and Cold Food Festival? (Jie Zitui)
02:56 - How to Celebrate it? (Tomb-Sweeping, Spring Outing, Flying Kites & Sticking Willow Branches)
03:41 - What food to eat at the Qingming Festival? (Qingtuan)
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