When is Qingming Festival?
Qingming Festival 2027 is on Monday, April 5, 2027.
Tomb-Sweeping Day. Families visit and tidy the graves of their ancestors, offer food and enjoy the spring outdoors.
How the date is set: The “Clear and Bright” solar term, April 4 or 5.
The date in other years
A short history
The Qingming Festival or Ching Ming Festival, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day in English (sometimes also called Chinese Memorial Day, Ancestors' Day, the Clear Brightness Festival, or the Pure Brightness Festival), is a traditional Chinese festival observed by ethnic Chinese in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. A celebration of spring, it falls on the first day of the fifth solar term, also called Qingming, of the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar. This makes it the 15th day after the Spring Equinox, either 4, 5 or 6 April in a given year. During Qingming, Chinese families visit the tombs of their ancestors to clean the gravesites and make ritual offerings to their ancestors.
From Wikipedia’s article Qingming Festival, by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Related days
Sources
- Hong Kong Observatory: Gregorian–Lunar calendar conversion tables Dates
- Wikipedia: Qingming Festival Short history (CC BY-SA 4.0)