Ch'ing-ming

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | 363 words | Copyright

Ch'ing-ming (Chin., ‘clear and bright’). The fifth of the twenty-four periods of the Chinese solar calendar. It is also the name of the festival which is additionally called ‘the sweeping of the tombs’: families sweep and tidy the graves of ancestors, offering food to them—and afterwards consuming food with them near the site.

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