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Saturday, March 29, 2008
Taiping - Qingming or Ching Meng Festival
Qingming Jie is known as Clear Brightness Festival and Tending Graves or Tomb Sweeping Day ( Kwangtung cemetery in Taiping)
Qingming denotes a time for people to go outside and enjoy the greenery
of springtime and also to tend to the graves of departed.
Its significance is to remember & honour ancestors.
Qingming Jie - held on 15th day of Spring equinox- usually falls on April 5 on Gregorian calendar except on leap years. In 2008 it occurs on April 4.
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