Archive for May 29th, 2011

Qingming festival in China

The Chinese government has proclaimed seven national holidays in China. One of them is the Qingming Festival, which usually falls on the 4th or 5th of April, following the Gregorian calendar. Firstly, the Qingming Festival is known to be one of the twenty four solar periods followed by the Chinese in their traditional lunisolar calendar. Qingming [...]