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Qingming Summary
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Qingming is the second-most-important seasonal festival, after the Lunar New Year, involving ancestral veneration in China. The term literally means clear and transparent, or brightness, implying the arrival of spring, after the dark and cold winter....
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Qingming Festival Information
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The Qingming Festival (traditional Chinese: 清明節; simplified Chinese: 清明节; pinyin: Qīngmíngjié, Vietnamese language: Tết Thanh Minh), meaning Clear and Bright Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival on the 104th day after the winter...


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Newsweek International
Out Of the Darkness; A Hong Kong exhibit offers a rare glimpse of the 12th-century masterpiece known as 'China's Mona Lisa.'(Song dynasty ink-on-silk painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival")
07/16/2007: 596 words, approx. 2 pages
Byline: Alexandra A. Seno Even among the stuffy bureaucrats in Beijing, the Song dynasty ink-on-silk painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" has an affectionate nickname: "China's Mona Lisa." Though it's a landscape, not a portrait, "Qingming" has a mysterious allure that...
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Festivals
05/20/2001: 789 words, approx. 3 pages
Great Milwaukee Summer FESTIVALS Sunday, May 20, 2001 Festivals in Milwaukee and neighboring communities: May 25-27: Dan Jansen Family Fest, Konkel Park, 5100 W. Layton Ave., Greenfield. May 27: Cedarburg Maxwell Street Days, Fireman's Park, Washington Ave., Cedarburg. ...
 


 

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