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The Ching Ming or Qing Ming Festival falls during the third lunar month.

Ching Ming literally translates as ‘clean and bright’, and this is the day that Chinese people sweep the graves of their ancestors. But the tidy up doesn’t end there: the festival is an important ancestor worship ritual that also requires families to weed graves, touch up headstone inscriptions, make offerings of food and light incense.

Besides China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, many other Asian countries that have a large Chinese communities also observe this traditional holiday, such as Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.