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Graveside picnics: The Ching Ming Festival - "The Clear and Bright Festival" - is related to the solar calendar. This seasonal festival marks the beginning of spring and is held on the 106th day after winter solstice and celebrated here in April.
On this day observants customarily visit ancestral graves where traditional rites and offerings are made to honour one's ancestors. This unusual ancestral observance is related to the traditional Chinese need to receive blessing from the previous generations at the onset of a new undertaking. The event, however, has the atmosphere of a picnic because the offered food is eaten at the various gravesites. It is not a solemn occasion, but rather, a time for happy communion with one's forefathers.
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