清明節 QingMing Festival（英文介紹）

The Qing Ming festival is a day of reverence for Chinese。People hold ceremonies for ancestors，and sweep their tombs on April 5th every year。According to tradition，during the Tomb Sweeping，people put food in front of the tombs，add new soil on the tomb。 Decorate the tombs with some fresh branches and knock head。A traditional Chinese painting named Riverside Scene on the Qing Ming festival，drawn nine hundred years ago，shows the prosperous atmosphere and activities on that day。People returned from Tomb Sweeping with horses and packages in the picture。Now it is a public holiday in China，Although ceremonies have changed a little with time ，Chinese still express their grief for the deceased。

清明節是中國人的祭祀節日。在每年的4月5日左右，人們祭祖和掃墓，按照舊時習俗，掃墓時，人們來到墓地，將食物供祭在親人墓前，為墳墓培上新土，折幾枝嫩綠的新枝，插在墳上，然後叩頭祭拜，900多年前的一副中國畫《清明上河圖》，描繪了當時人們，在過清明節時的繁榮景象和節日風俗，人們騎著馬，挑著擔，從掃墓的地方歸來。現在，清明節已經成為中國的法定節日，雖然隨著時間的推移，祭祀的習俗可能悄悄改變，但中國人依然會，在清明節這一天伴著春天的細雨，用自己的方式寄託對故人的哀思。