“You won’t see the day on many western calendars. For me, it’s a day of memories, tears and laughter.”
Christopher Cheung writes about Qingming, the traditional Chinese day of honouring the dead, which this year falls on April 4 — today.
From April 2019:
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2019/04/05/Qingming-Family-Tidies-Graves/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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