Qingming festival ... tombsweeping day April 4

[Satellite_TV]

@marasan

I’m really looking forward to the long weekend. I’ll be in Hualien as usual. Family, good food, exercise, and a bit of partying (bro in law is celebrating the start of a new decade).

I hate the actual tombsweeping activities, but it’s usually fairly short and painless.

If only you had a crystal ball to predict earthquakes

[meishijia]

Didn’t 清明節 used to be on the 5th day of April?

EDIT: oh apparently it can be 4th, 5th or 6th, which is the 15th day after the Spring Equinox.

[Andrew]

@meishijia

EDIT: oh apparently it can be 4th, 5th or 6th, which is the 15th day after the Spring Equinox.

Also read that Taiwan used to have it on the 5th for the death of Chiang Kai-shek, until that was stopped in 2007.