扫墓
扫墓
sǎo mù
to sweep the tombs (of one's ancestors); the Qingming festival
Traditional: 掃墓
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- (verb) to sweep the tombs (of one's ancestors)
- the Qingming festival
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Related Words
上坟(shàng fén)· to sweep the tombs (of one's ancestors)
→介之推(Jiè Zhī tuī)· Jie Zhitui (7th century BC), legendary selfless subject of Duke Wen of Jin 晉文公|晋文公, in whose honor the Qingming festival 清明 (Pure brightness or tomb-sweeping festival) is said to have been initiated
→寒食(hán shí)· cold food (i.e. to abstain from cooked food for 3 days around the Qingming festival 清明節|清明节)
→清明(qīng míng)· clear and bright
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