The meaning of the Qingming Festival is to trace the roots and origins.

The Qingming Festival is an important festival for sweeping tombs and paying homage to ancestors. The significance of Qingming for us lies in how we express our respect for our ancestors and history, and maintain our reverence and gratitude for our traditions, so as to find the spiritual roots of contemporary people.

The significance of the Qingming Festival for us lies in how we can express our respect for our ancestors and history, maintain our reverence and gratitude for tradition, and thus find the spiritual roots of the contemporary people. People directly link the worship of ancestors with the national character of the Chinese people, who emphasize filial piety and caution in pursuing the past, and believe that the Qingming Festival custom embodies the moral consciousness of the Chinese people to be grateful and not to forget their roots.

The real significance of ancestor worship at Ching Ming lies in remembering the virtues of one's ancestors and not forgetting one's roots. In contemporary society, the traditional extended family model of life has disintegrated, coupled with the high mobility of people, family members have fewer and fewer opportunities to reunite. The Ching Ming Festival not only reflects the honoring of the family, but also reveals the recognition of bloodline kinship, and expresses gratitude to the ancestors.

About Qingming:

The Qingming Festival, together with the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, is known as China's four major traditional festivals.

On May 20, 2006, the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China declared the Qingming Festival to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list approved by the State Council. Customs of Qingming Festival: Sweeping tombs and paying homage to ancestors, planting trees, flying kites, inserting willows, eating green dumplings, swinging on swings, trekking and so on.