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1、清明节英文ching ming festival is one of the 24 segments in chinese calendar. it normally falls on the 4th or 5th of april because its depended on the cold food day (105 days after previous years winter solstice)in the old days, ching ming was celebrated 3 days after the cold food day but cold food day wa
2、s shorted to one day and then abandoned. so nowadays, ching ming and cold food day fall on the same day although no one celebrate cold food day any more. ching ming is also known as remembrance of ancestors day or grave sweeping day.on ching ming, the whole family will visit their ancestors or relat
3、ives graves. i remember when i was little, we had to catch a diesel train to north new territories to do grave sweeping. as a kid, i always find it scary when the train go through the dark tunnel of the hill. but there is no more diesel trains running in hk now. if you want to see one, you can find
4、it in the railway museum in tai po market.we have to carry incense sticks, joss sticks and paper offerings like paper money and paper clothes and any other paper accessories, depends how serious your family is with this thing. all paper offerings will be burnt for they believe that the relatives can
5、 receive the goods and even money this way. as a kid, i am always asked to carry a bunch of flower. chrysanthemum is normally chosen so dont give chrysanthemum to chinese people as gift coz its a funeral/grave sweeping use flowers, although some households may find it to display home on normal days.
