Tomb Sweeping Day, also called "Cold Food Day", is the most important day for people to offer sacrifice to ancestors. It started from the Zhou Dynasty, with a history of over 2500 years. Qingming is one of the 24 solar terms in China, ...
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The water-releasing ceremony on the Qingming Festival is a folk custom in Dujiangyan City where the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, a UNESCO world cultural heritage site, is located. On Qingming Festival (one of the 24 Chinese solar terms) ...
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