Each year the annual Qingming Festival -also known as the Pure Brightness Festival or as Tomb-Sweeping Day- falls on either April 4 or 5 on the Gregorian calendar. This year it falls on Thursday, April 5, 2018.
On the Saturday, March 31 broadcast of Marvels of China: Pathways to the Pacific Rim I’m featuring an encore conversation with a good friend of this show, Douglas Chong of the Hawaii Chinese History Center in the heart of Honolulu’s Chinatown.
The festival -one of twenty-four solar terms on the traditional Chinese calendar- includes cleaning the tombs of and paying respects to the deceased with offerings of favorite foods and more.
The living among us also enjoy and appreciate the beautiful scenes of Nature as temperatures rise, trees awaken from winter’s slumber and turn green -a tradition traced back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD). Flying kites is another activity people engage in, too.
Douglas Chong will explain and educate us about all this and more as only he can.
The show will feature our usual segments -the Confucius Moment, Treasures of China, the Weekly Almanac of things to do and places to see, Chinese Fun Facts, news, announcements and more!
Tune in Saturday, March 31 at 10:30 a.m. Eastern USA Time/10:30 p.m. Beijing Time on 1490 WGCH and WGCH.com anywhere.
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