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Chingming Festival
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Ching-ming Festival Ching Ming Festival
English
Etymology
From the Wade-Giles romanization of en cmn - Chinese 清明 (Qīngmíng, "pure brightness") and the English translation of 節 (jié, "festival").
Proper noun
Chingming festival
en Qingming Festival.
Usage notes
Properly "Ch‘ing-ming Festival", with the hyphen separating the Chinese characters and the apostrophe noting a distinct sound, but in practice both are often omitted.