Tourists stroll along the West Lake during the Qingming Holiday in Hangzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, April 2, 2017. Chinese are having the Tomb-sweeping Day holiday, or Qingming, from Sunday ...

Have you ever heard of the Qingming (say “ching-ming”) Festival? It’s also known as Grave Sweeping Day. It is a special Chinese festival that honours family ancestors and has been celebrated for over ...

Qingming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, one of China's traditional festivals that embodies the dual connotations of nature and culture, will fall on Thursday this year. It is not only one of the "24 ...

The keyword for traditional Chinese Qingming Festival, or Tomb-sweeping Day, is the Chinese character "nian," which means remembrance or to miss someone, as people consider the festival a day of ...

As China embraces the spring season, the Qingming Festival holidays have sparked a remarkable surge in consumer spending across nation's cultural and tourism sectors. From traditional flower-viewing ...

BEIJING -- Some 600,000 people visited graveyards in the suburbs of Chinese capital Beijing on Friday, about triple last year's figure of 189,000, according to official statistics. People are walking ...

Qingming, the traditional Chinese day of honouring the dead, takes place the 15th day after the spring equinox, which puts it on either April 4, 5 or 6. This year, it’s April 5. Photo by Christopher ...

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 ...