The
Qingming Festival is Pure Brightness Festival or Clear Bright Festival,
Ancestors Day or Tomb Sweeping Day is a traditional Chinese festival on
the 104th day after the winter solstice, usually occurring around April
5 of the Gregorian calendar.
Astronomically it is also a solar term. The Qingming festival falls on
the first day of the fifth solar term, named Qingming.
Its name denotes a time for people to go outside and enjoy the greenery
of spring time and tend to the graves of departed ones.
