How do you say Tomb-Sweeping Day in English?

Tomb-Sweeping Day: Tomb-Sweeping Day or Qingming Festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day, as a festival and a solar term, has different English expressions.

As a festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day is generally translated as "TombSweepingFestival" or "Tomb-Sweeping Day", which means grave-sweeping day or grave-sweeping day. This translation emphasizes the important custom of "sweeping graves" in Tomb-Sweeping Day. The advantage of this statement is that foreigners can roughly understand the meaning behind this festival as soon as they listen.

Let's talk about the solar term Qingming, which is translated as "ClearandBright", clean and bright. It is not difficult to find that this translation emphasizes the climate situation in the Qingming period, which is consistent with the starting point of translation of other solar terms. For example, Long Summer is translated as "long summer", Slight Cold and Great Cold are translated as "Slight Cold" and "Great Cold" respectively. Qingming is one of the twenty-four solar terms, at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, the first 108 day after the winter solstice. The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day of the Han nationality in China began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years.