Firstly,let's say about the Qingming festival in china,the Qingming is one of the most important festival for chinese people, it usually occures on the Appril 4th-6th earch year.the Qingming has been emerged in the history of china about 2500 years ago.
why is it so important?
Chinese never forget their ancestors. once a year to sweeping the tomp is necessary for anyone who are far way from their hometown and the tomb. the qingming day is the day that anyone who are far away from the ancestor's tomb have to come back to sacrifice to anccestors and sweeping the tomb or decorating the tomb. they prepare the fruits, food and many stuff for sacrifice.
as for lao culture and custom, we don't have the qing ming festival as chinese, the death people usually must be burned and take the bone ash to the temple according to buddism 's rule and then we put the bone ash into the stupa which we buit along the temple wall. We go to temple and offer the food to the monk ,those food will be sent our ancestors via the monks' words. we can sweeping or cleaning our ancestors' stupa every time when we reach the temple, but usually we do it on Lao new year or special day of buddhish .
The Qingming Festival (traditional Chinese: 清明節; simplified Chinese: 清明节; pinyin: Qīngmíngjié, or Ching Ming Festival in Hong Kong, Vietnamese language: Tết Thanh Minh), meaning Clear and Bright Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival on the 104th day after the winter solstice (or the 15th day from the Spring Equinox), usually occurring around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar (see Chinese calendar). Every leap year, Qing Ming is on April 4. Astronomically, it is also a solar term (See Qingming). In solar terms, the Qingming festival is on the 1st day of the 5th solar term, which is also named Qingming. Its name denotes a time for people to go outside and enjoy the greenery of springtime (踏青 Tàqīng, "treading on the greenery"), and also to tend to the graves of departed ones.
Qingming is a statutory public holiday in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. It has long been a public holiday in the latter three jurisdictions, but became a public holiday in mainland China in 2008 for the first time since 1949.[1][2]
The transcription of the term Qingming may appear in a number of different forms, some of which are:
Qingming
Qing Ming
Qing Ming Jie
Ching Ming (official in Hong Kong[3])
Ching Ming Chieh
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