Qingming Festival
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The Qingming Festival takes place on the 15th day after the spring equinox, which lands between April 3 and April 5. The festival’s origins date back to ancient China—including a connection to the Cold Food (or Hanshi) Festival, whose traditions would eventually be combined with the Qingming Festival—which, today, is more commonly known as Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day and offers an opportunity for the Chinese to pay respect to their ancestors and lost loved ones.
The Qingming festival is a public holiday where people typically visit ancestors’ tombs and gravesites to clean the site, leave offerings to ancestors, and set off firecrackers and burn paper, a symbolic gesture meant to represent currency for their dead loves ones to use in the underworld (though many revelers opt to avoid fire altogether to follow tradition). They may also wear or hang willow branches to ward off evil spirits and partake in spring-related activities, with many flying colorful kites in the evening (which is believed to carry away bad luck). In honor of the holiday’s origins (and connection to the Hanshi Festival), people typically stick to cold foods during the Qingming Festival—with dumplings being a popular option.
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