More info-Ching Ming Festival
The Ching Ming festival is celebrated in April and is known as “Remembrance of Ancestors Day”.
This day-long celebration is dedicated to honouring relatives who died.
Thousands of the Chinese population pay their respects to their beloved ancestors by visiting cemeteries
to clean their graves. The Chinese hold a great respect to their dead relatives,
and teach their young to pray for, and to the family spirits. The young also
help in the cleaning process when they accompany their parents. The “willow” is
known as the symbol of light and enemy of darkness in Chinese culture. On Ching
Ming, willow twigs and branches are hung in doorways to ward off evil spirits.
It is believed by Chinese, that if you don’t hang the willow on Ching Ming, you
will appear as a yellow dog in your next life.
This day-long celebration is dedicated to honouring relatives who died.
Thousands of the Chinese population pay their respects to their beloved ancestors by visiting cemeteries
to clean their graves. The Chinese hold a great respect to their dead relatives,
and teach their young to pray for, and to the family spirits. The young also
help in the cleaning process when they accompany their parents. The “willow” is
known as the symbol of light and enemy of darkness in Chinese culture. On Ching
Ming, willow twigs and branches are hung in doorways to ward off evil spirits.
It is believed by Chinese, that if you don’t hang the willow on Ching Ming, you
will appear as a yellow dog in your next life.
