Qingming Festival: Conveying Mourning for Ancestors through Chiwen

BEIJING, April 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report from China.org.cn on the Qingming Festival:

Spring returns to the earth, bring clear skies and fresh air, and the Qingming Festival arrives as scheduled. Online Chinese Festivals, with auspicious beasts as the medium, unlocks the profound heritage and new chapter of the Qingming Festival.

Tracing the origins of the festival, Questions about the Year and Seasons said, "All things grow at this time, and they are all pure and bright, so it is called Qingming (meaning "pure and bright")." This interprets the festival's natural connotation. On the cultural level, it integrates the customs of mourning ancestors during the Cold Food Festival and going for a spring outing during the Shangsi Festival. It embodies the Chinese people's adherence to tradition and love for spring.

Spring is the best time for reading, and the fragrance of books conveys thoughts on the Qingming Festival. This reflects the cultural extension and contemporary renewal of Qingming culture. Holding an ancient book and reading it carefully, you can perceive the wisdom of ancient sages in their poetic works. People, young and old, read books together, carrying forward our shared cultural heritage. In doing so, we can not only cultivate our temperament with the fragrance of books, but also view life rationally. Let Qingming culture glow with new vitality in the fragrance of ink.

Spring outings represent the most vivid natural connotation of the Qingming Festival. Going for outings, inserting willow branches, and flying kites… these folk customs that have been passed down for thousands of years, are not only an embrace of the vitality of heaven and earth, but also a vivid expression of Qingming culture.

Nowadays, such customs have been endowed with a new life, so that the connotations of the Qingming Festival—"heaven and earth are clear, carrying Forward Cultural Heritage" can be continued and updated in spring outings of the contemporary era. Young generations use innovative methods to bring life into the natural connotation and cultural heritage of the Qingming Festival as recorded in ancient books, thereby achieving a two-way interaction between tradition and fashion.

From the initial stage when the ancestors revered heaven and earth, to today's innovation in cultural inheritance, and Qingming culture has been constantly updated from generation to generation. Online Chinese Festivals, with auspicious beasts as the bridge, make the ancient heritage of the Qingming Festival glow with the brilliance of the times.

Chiwen conveys mourning for thoughts, and the prayer for a peaceful world. Online Chinese Festivals provide a moment for remembering ancient sages of Chinese civilization.

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