{"id":18266,"date":"2020-02-19T21:08:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T21:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/tomb-sweeping-day\/"},"modified":"2020-02-19T21:08:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T21:08:18","slug":"tomb-sweeping-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/tomb-sweeping-day\/","title":{"rendered":"TOMB SWEEPING DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center; \">\n<p>  \tTomb Sweeping Day (\u6e05\u660e\u8282 q\u012bngm&iacute;ng ji\u0113) is a time for families to celebrate life, and to pay respects to their ancestors. It&rsquo;s a time of mixed emotions: sadness over lost loved ones and joy for the return of spring.?Start the day right, by commemorating your ancestors and other loved ones who&rsquo;ve passed on. In China, it&rsquo;s especially important to look after departed members of the family, as their spirits protect the living descendents (i.e. you). April 5th is a day to visit their graves, pull weeds, and sweep the grounds. Offerings of food, rice wine, and paper money will all help ensure the spirits are smiling. If you&rsquo;re unable to visit their graves, one popular way to pay respect is to burn paper money on a street corner at night, which is a regular sight around China. (Be careful to keep your distance from others who are memorializing in this way&mdash;not only out of respect, but also because the ghosts they&rsquo;re calling might follow you home!)<\/p>\n<p>  \tOther ways to celebrate this holiday are by enjoying the nascent spring air. A picnic in the park, or a little kite flying, would be appropriate, and you&rsquo;ll see the parks around China full of people doing just this.<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3004550347\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomb Sweeping Day (\u6e05\u660e\u8282 q\u012bngm&iacute;ng ji\u0113) is a time for families to celebrate life, and to pay respects to their ancestors. It&rsquo;s a time of mixed emotions: sadness over lost loved ones and joy for the return of spring.?Start the day right, by commemorating your ancestors and other loved ones who&rsquo;ve passed on. In China, it&rsquo;s especially important to look after departed members of the family, as their spirits protect the living descendents (i.e. you). April 5th is a day to visit their graves, pull weeds, and sweep the grounds. Offerings of food, rice wine, and paper money will all help ensure the spirits are smiling. If you&rsquo;re unable to visit their graves, one popular way to pay respect is to burn paper money on a street corner at night, which is a regular sight around China. (Be careful to keep your distance from others who are memorializing in this way&mdash;not only out of respect, but also because the ghosts they&rsquo;re calling might follow you home!)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2875],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-customs"],"views":156,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}