the qingming festival (simplified chinese: 清明节; traditional chinese: 清明節; pinyin: qīngmíngjié, ching ming festival in hong kong, vietnamese language: tết thanh minh), pure brightness festival or clear bright festival, ancestors day or tomb sweeping day 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). astronomically it is also a solar term (see qingming). the qingming festival falls on the first day of the fifth solar term, 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 tend to the graves of departed ones.
　　qingming has been regularly observed as a statutory public holiday in taiwan and in the chinese jurisdictions of hong kong and macau. its observance was reinstated as a public holiday in mainland china in xx, after having been previously suppressed by the ruling communist party in 1949.[1]