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例句：
- Qingming Festival, also known as Tomb Sweeping Day, is a traditional Chinese festival that falls on the 15th day after the Spring Equinox, typically around April 4th or 5th. It is a time for Chinese people to pay respects to their perished ancestors and loved ones by visiting and cleaning their gravesites.
- Before we talk about Qingming Festival, we must say something about another ancient event, Hanshi, which always comes the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day. On Hanshi Day every year, no fire or smoke is allowed and people eat cold food the whole day.
- The tradition of having qingtuan during Qingming Festival evolved from an ancient Chinese festival called Cold Food Festival—one or two days before Qing ming.
- As Qingming Festival also marks the start of spring, many people will spend some time outdoors enjoying nature on what should be some of the first warm days of the year.
- Apart from tomb sweeping on Qingming Festival, incense is burnt and paper offerings along with a spring outing with families and friends is among the most popular festival customs, as nature turns green and the weather gets warm.
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解释：
- Qingming Festival 做名词短语使用，现为中国一传统节日，其表示“an occasion for Chinese people to honor lost family members”这一含义，即“清明节”，与Tomb Sweeping Day/ Ching Ming Festival/Clear Brightness Festival这些词组构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- The Qingming Festival is held one hundred and four days after the winter solstice, and is known as the “pure bright festival”, “tomb-sweeping day” and “ancestors day.” （清明节在冬至后一百零四天举行，被称为“清明节”、“扫墓节”、“祖先节”。）
–Culture - Qingming Festival is also a memorial day for Jie Zitui, a well-known patriotic hermit who died in an accident. （清明节也是著名爱国隐士杰子图的纪念日，他死于意外。）
–History - Qingming Festival is a national holiday in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan with most people having the day off from work or school to allow time to travel to ancestral gravesites.（清明节是中国大陆、香港、澳门和台湾地区的法定假日，大多数人放假或放假，以便有时间前往祖传的墓地。）
–Culture - Other traditional activities on Qingming Festival include playing tug-of-war and swinging on swings. It is also a good time for sowing and other agricultural activities, including planting willow trees.（清明节的其他传统活动包括拔河和秋千秋千。这也是播种和其他农业活动的好时机，包括种植柳树。）
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