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清cing1明ming4節zit3

simp清明节
cing1 ming4 zit3Qing1ming2jie2Qīng míng jié

English

  1. Qingming or Pure Brightness Festival or Tomb Sweeping Day, celebration for the dead (in early April)
  2. (noun) The Ching Ming Festival, which is a day that Chinese people to clean their ancestor's graves, and more importantly, it requires worship ritual includes touch up headstone inscriptions, offerings food (incense and real food), money (paper money) to their ancestors, etc.
  3. Ching Ming Festival, usu. on April 4th, 5th or 6th, when people pay tribute to their ancestors by visiting their graves as a traditional custom.

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 農曆二十四節氣之一，通常係公曆四月四至六號三日其中一日，啲人會依照傳統，喺呢日掃墓，拜祭祖先。

Sources: cc-canto, cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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