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Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day is the alternative form of Tomb Sweeping Day.

Meaning of Tomb Sweeping Day

Proper noun

Tomb Sweeping Day

  1. An annual Chinese holiday on the first day of the fifth solar term in the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar (April 4 or 5), during which families gather to honor their ancestors and clean their tombs. The festival is also associated with the consumption of qingtuan.

Questions about Tomb-Sweeping Day

What is Tomb-Sweeping Day the alternative form of?
Tomb-Sweeping Day is the alternative form of Tomb Sweeping Day.

Words near Tomb-Sweeping Day in the dictionary

  1. tomb robbers
  2. Tomb Sweeping Day
  3. Tomb Sweeping Festival
  4. tomb-stone
  5. tomb-stones
  6. Tomb-Sweeping Day
  7. Tomba
  8. tombac
  9. tomback
  10. tombacs
  11. tombak

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