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Qingming Festival 

The Qing Ming festival is a day of reverence for Chinese. People hold ceremonies for ancestors, and sweep their tombs on April 5th every year. According to tradition , during the Tomb Sweeping, people put food in front of the tombs, add new soil on the tomb. Decorate the tombs with some fresh branches and knock head. 

A traditional Chinese painting named Riverside Scene on the Qing Ming festival, drawn nine hundred years ago, shows the prosperous atmosphere and activities on that day. People returned from Tomb Sweeping with houses and packages in the picture.

Now it is a public holiday in China. Although ceremonies have changed a little with time. Chinese still express their grief for the deceased.