CAPITOLA — Feb. 10 marked the start of the 2024 Lunar New Year, the Year of the Dragon, and with it came a slew of celebrations worldwide as well as smaller events embracing and teaching the ...

The Qingming Festival is a time for Chinese communities to honor the dead. It involves making offerings — including paper replicas of things — to the spirits of loved ones. Some of this year's most ...

The Jesuits reformed the Western calendar. Then they attempted to do the same in China. Ask most Christians the date of the next Easter and they’re likely to Google it. Though highly associated with ...

Tourists enter the Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province for sightseeing, on April 6, 2025. Photo: VCG During the Qingming Festival holiday that wrapped up on Sunday, ...

SINGAPORE, April 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Trip.com Group, a leading global travel services provider, has released its Qingming Festival travel data showing a strong recovery in China's domestic tourism ...

On Wednesday, Chinese will mark the Qingming Festival, when it’s traditional to pay tributes to their ancestors and the heroes who died serving their country. CCTV reporter Meng Qingsheng introduces ...

The Qingming Festival is upon us and most foreign media conveniently translate it as "Tomb Sweeping Day." This is sweet and simple, but maybe a greater service to global knowledge could be done if ...

During the Qingming festival, also known as the tomb sweeping festival, Chinese communities in Asia honour their ancestors by sweeping there tombs and by burning fake money or replicas of luxury items ...

Qingming Festival, means clear and bright in Chinese, is the day for mourning the dead. It falls in early April every year. It corresponds with the onset of warmer weather, the start of spring plowing ...