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Chinese Qingming Festival Chinese Qingming Festival is coming!  What is Qingming festival?  The Qingming festival, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day in English (sometimes also called Chinese Memorial Day or Ancestors' Day). It is a traditional Chinese festival observed by the Han Chinese of mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.  What is the time for Qingming festival?  It falls on the first day of the fifth solar term of the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar. This makes it the 15th day after the Spring Equinox, 春分either 4, 5 or 6 April in a given year. The Qingming Festival has been observed by the Chinese for over 2500 years. It became a public holiday in mainland China in 2008.  What people do for Qingming festival?  During Qingming, Chinese families visit the tombs of their ancestors to clean the gravesites, pray to their ancestors and make ritual offerings. Offerings would typicall...

Best Chinese Songs Playlist – New Pop Star on 2021 China CCTV Gala Show Why we like the music we do？New study suggests that musical tastes are cultural in origin, not hardwired in the brain. We are conducting an experiment and ask anyone who reads this post to participant and rate the pleasantness of three new Chinese pop songs by Mr. Wang Qi. The reason to start the test to Wang Qi’s songs is because Mr. Wang Qi is a native Chinese pop singer. He was born in a countryside of Liao Ning province, China. He is a Han nationality, he cannot speak English and has not received classic music training in the schools. But he became immediate famous in one night by presenting one pop song, The shepherd of Cocotohai, at the China CCTV Gala show in Feb. 2021. Another reason is Wang Qi’s talent in both lyrics writing, music composing and singing. All popular songs are created by himself. Wang Qi wrote one popular song in 2017, “lover fan”, a folk style song initially widely spread in the northeast ...