Vacation name: Qingming Festival 2013
Vacation date:On Apr 4 2013(Thu)--Feb 16 (Sat). Total off for 3 days.
The Origin of Qingming Festival:
Qingming is the Lunar one of the twenty-four solar terms, at the turn in mid-spring and late spring, which is 108 days after the winter solstice.The Chinese Han traditional Qingming approximately began in the Zhou Dynasty, dating back more than 2500 years of history."Almanac": "15 days after the vernal equinox, the Big Dipper that small, Qingming, when all things are clean, clean air cover when Qingming, all things are significant, hence the name." It is an excellent spring spring planting season, it is "Before and after the tomb-sweeping day, kind of melon beans," said. Qing Ming is an ancestor worship festival, traditional activities for grave.
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