Tomb Sweeping Festival ( Qingming Jie) Beijing

Tomb Sweeping Festival ( Qingming Jie) Beijing

Known as one of the most interesting ancient cities, Beijing is the capital city of People's Republic of China and is a major tourist attraction of the country. Beijing is known for its rich culture and glorious past and is home to several festivals and events. Tomb sweeping festival, lantern festival etc. are some of the major festivals and events celebrated in Beijing. AsiaRooms offers to give you online information on Tomb Sweeping Festival (Qingming Jie), Beijing in China.

Tomb Sweeping Festival (Qingming Jie), Beijing is the day for mourning the dead. Qingming means clear and bright and falls in the month of April year.

One day before the Tomb Sweeping festival comes the Hanshi event, which literally means cold food. People eat cold food on that day and visit the tomb of Jie Zitui's and their respect.

Under the Qing dynasty, practice of Hanshi or eating cold food was replaced by the Qingming festival. Also known as Tomb Sweeping Festival (Qingming Jie), Beijing is an important festival where people offer sacrifices to their ancestors.

In ancient times the ceremonies of this festival were very elaborate and expensive and demanded large amount of time and money.

To reduce the expenses of the festival, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty declared that the respect to the ancestors would be formally paid at the tomb and that too only on the day of Qingming.

The custom continues till date and people visit and pay respect to their ancestors on their graves. People visit the graves of their ancestors and tidy up the place by removing weeds and leaves. The festival therefore also called the Grave or Tomb Sweeping Day.

Babaoshan, Beijing's most famous cemetery and crematorium and is usually crowded around Qingming as people come and respect to their ancestors.

Besides, Tomb Sweeping Festival (Qingming Jie) is also celebrated as a day welcomes the coming of spring when all is new and fresh.

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