Qingming Festival

The Qingming Festival, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day, is an important Chinese holiday centered on honoring ancestors and deceased relatives. Families visit grave sites to clean and clear away brush, offering food, fruit, wine, and symbolic paper money as acts of remembrance and respect. In 2026, Qingming falls on April 5, which, in a remarkable coincidence, is also Easter Sunday. What a meaningful parallel to consider—the first “tomb-sweepers” who came to honor Jesus found the tomb empty! The date of Qingming is fairly consistent each year, as it falls on the fifteenth day after the Spring Equinox. Learn more about this festival and its implications for ministry here.