Qingming Festival
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![An Indonesian Chinese family pray for their deceased members at Qingming Festival of 2013 under the Heaven Gate of Sanggar Agung.](/Images/godic/202501/04/A_Indonesian_Chinese_Family_pray_for_their_deceased_members_at_Sanggar_Agung_Temple,_Surabaya3402.jpg")
![Colored papers placed on a grave during Qingming Festival, Bukit Brown Cemetery, Singapore](/Images/godic/202501/04/Five_coloured_papers_on_a_grave_mound,_Bukit_Brown_Cemetery,_Singapore_-_20110326-023402.jpg")
![Panorama of Along the River During the Qingming Festival, 12th century original by Zhang Zeduan (1085–1145)](/Images/godic/202501/04/Alongtheriver_QingMing3402.jpg")
The Qingming or Ching Ming Festival, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day in English, is a traditional Chinese festival on the first day of the fifth solar term of the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar. This makes it the 15th day after the Spring Equinox, either 4 or 5 April in a given year. Other common translations include Chinese Memorial Day and Ancestors' Day.