The Chingming Festival
The Chingming Festival, which translates as 'clean and bright' festival, occurs during the third lunar month, which is either April 4th of 5th in the Western calendar. During this festival, Chinese people clean and sweep the graves of their ancestors. It is also a common sight everyday in Hong Kong to see 'Burning Shrines' where joss sticks are burned as an offering to ancestors who have passed into the afterlife. This form of ancestor worship is practiced in both Buddhism