Which countries in the world also celebrate Qingming Festival, a traditional Chinese holiday?

Besides China, Qingming Festival is also celebrated in a number of countries and regions around the world, such as Vietnam, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore. In addition, Ching Ming Festival is also celebrated in Indonesia and the United States, where there is a large Chinese population.

Vietnam

Vietnam is one of the few countries in the world that use the same lunar calendar as China. The Ching Ming Festival is a day for Vietnamese people to clean the graves of their ancestors and to walk around the country, repairing graves and removing weeds, burning incense and paper, and in some cases offering flowers. In many places, it is also customary to set off firecrackers when sweeping graves. In Vietnam, Ching Ming Festival is also known as Tonkin Festival. Because of the proximity of the Ching Ming Festival and the Cold Food Festival, Vietnam combines the two and unifies them to eat cold food, such as soup dumplings or soup balls, on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar.

Korea

Koreans also have the folk custom of celebrating Qingming. Cheongmyung is celebrated on April 5 of the Gregorian calendar in Korea. However, Qingming is not a legal holiday in Korea. Koreans like to pay homage to their ancestors with flowers, and when they sweep their graves, they put flowers to show their remembrance of the deceased. Refurbishing the graves of one's ancestors or deceased relatives on Cheongmyong is an important part of the festival, where family members go to the cemetery together to remove weeds and solemnly place offerings such as wine, fruits and rice cakes in front of the graves, and kneel down to bow or perform rituals to pay respects.

Chinese Indonesians

In the early years, Chinese Indonesians used to pay homage to their ancestors at the ancestral halls of the 100 family names, but since each family name has its own ancestral hall, the clansmen gather at the halls to pay homage to their ancestors. The Chinese living in Indonesia have been continuing the custom of visiting their ancestors' graves on the Ching Ming Festival.

Chinese people often pay tribute to their ancestors at the ancestral halls of the hundreds of family names, but since each family name has its own ancestral hall, the relatives gather at the hall to pay tribute to their ancestors. They usually have lunch after the ancestor worship ****, to honor the friendship of the clan.

Malaysian Chinese

Malaysian Chinese don't forget to visit their ancestors on Ching Ming Festival. Ching Ming Festival is also not a public **** holiday in Malaysia. In Malaysia, Chinese public cemeteries are usually called "yee shan", so locals often say that they have to "go up to the mountain to sweep the graves" on Ching Ming Festival, or just say "pay respect to the mountain".

On the day of Ching Ming Festival, the worshippers first clean the graves, and then put flowers, fruits, etc., and then light an incense, to express their condolences, remembering the ancestors.

Singaporean Chinese

Also in Singapore, which is predominantly Chinese, Ching Ming Festival is not a public **** holiday. In Singapore, the main commemorative ritual of Qingming Festival is tomb-sweeping. Tomb-sweeping was one of the earliest customs of the festival, which has continued to the present day and has been gradually simplified with the advancement of society.

Every Ching Ming Festival, Chinese Singaporeans will travel with their families, their children and grandchildren will first trim and clean up the graves of their ancestors and the weeds around them, and then put wine, food, fruits and flowers in front of the graves of their loved ones, burn incense and candles, and then incinerate the paper money, kowtow and salute, and then eat the wine and food and go home.

Chinese Americans

During the Ching Ming Festival, the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California organizes activities every year to commemorate the ancestors of Chinese descent and call on the Chinese not to forget the contribution of their ancestors in opening up the frontier in California. Local Chinese people have been carrying out the annual Qingming Festival commemoration in different ways.

The different experiences of Chinese New Yorkers dictate the different ways they celebrate Ching Ming Festival. On this day, many traditional overseas Chinese groups have placed advertisements in newspapers for spring festivals and posted notices in their clubhouses, organizing their members to pay their respects at the cemeteries where their ancestors are buried.

Tomb-sweeping on the Qingming Festival has become a social occasion for Chinese to bond and increase interactions. New immigrants who came to the United States after the 1970s also tend to express their thoughts about their ancestors through letters and phone calls to friends and relatives in their home countries.

The above reference? Baidu Encyclopedia - Qingming Festival

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