Qingming Festival: Honoring ancestors, embracing renewal

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  Discussion keeps the world turning.

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  This is Roundtable.

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  Qingming Festival is a day of remembrance, but also renewal.

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  From green memorials to the call of the open road, how do Chinese people observe this day?

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  Coming to you from Beijing, this is Roundtable.

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  I'm He Yang.

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  For today's program, I'm joined by Steve Hatherley and Yu Xun in the studio.

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  First on today's show, Qingming Festival,

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  also known as Tomb Sweeping Day, is observed on April 4 this year.

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  It's a day to honor the past while welcoming the vitality of spring.

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  Beyond tomb sweeping, new traditions are taking root.

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  Eco conscious rituals, spring outings, and a fresh perspective on this centuries old festival.

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  Festival.

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  So guys, let's take a look back on history of this clear and bright day.

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  So first of all, it is a solar term.

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  Traditional Chinese calendar divides the year into 24 solar terms.

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  And Qingming directly translated in English was clear and bright.

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  Or it is the fifth solar term that we say this year.

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  It is the April 4th.

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  It has a close relationship with agriculture.

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