Mean: The Qing Ming festival means Clear and Bright festival, is a traditional Chinese festival which family members will visit the gravesite to the one’s elderly or ancestors to do the cleaning on the graves.
Date: Fall around 5 April on Gregorian calendar and 4 April for leap year.
2008: 4 April 2008
Activities: The Chinese believers will clean and sweep on the graves with family. Weeds are pulled, dirt swept away and burning joss sticks and paper money, food is offered to the departed.
Death Chinese are always buried at their hometown so that the spirit will rest well and return bless to their young surviving generation. However, the one’s which in place in ash holder is included with the name, death of birth and death, hometown, and birthplace, so that the spirit will find their way home.
Qing Ming is a official public holiday for China, Hong Kong and Macau.
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60 Earth Hour 2008
On this 29 March 2008 - 24 cities around the world will take part in Earth Hour, a global movement that began in Sydney last year, with resident and businesses encouraged to turn off the light and non-essential appliances for an hour to deliver a powerful message about the need of action on global warming.
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