About this Holiday
Ching Ming Festival, also known as Tomb Sweeping Day, falls around April 4–6 each year based on the solar term calendar. Families visit cemeteries to clean tombstones, offer food, flowers, and incense, and burn paper offerings for their ancestors. The festival is rooted in Confucian values of filial piety and ancestral veneration. In Hong Kong, many families make early morning visits to hilltop cemeteries, and the Leisure and Cultural Services Department arranges special transport to major cemeteries across the territory.