The tomb sweeping day Taday's chinese traditional tomb sweeping day,we chinese call it "QingMingjie". It's an accasion of visiting our ancestors' graves and it falls on April 4,5 or 6 each year. Beacuse i'm on school in Wuhan far from my home and i'm not able to have this festival with my family,but i would like to write something about it. This morning in my hometown,people prepared some colorful stincky rice ,chichen and three red eggs for placing them in front of the ancestors' tombs.and burned some spirit money for the dead to use in the other world.This festival make a opportunity for people to show their respect to the dead and pray for good luck. After visiting all ansestors' graves,The three red eggs eatten by chidren in a wish of cleverer and the colorful stincky rice for pigs or ducks,and the other for the family's part of dinner. In some regions in china,there is a activity of flying kites,and the kites have many shapes and different designs.Such as dragon and butterflyand so on.I don't what it exactly mean by flying kites. I have heared that there is a festival for the dead each year in Japan,and they hang some special—made lanterns outside for the dead to find way for returnning home and place some food outside for them after a long trip. After the festival,the food would be thrown into a river or into a sea as it's considered unlucky for anyony living to eat it .and the lanterns are placed into the water to guide the dead's return trip to the other world. How different the cuture are between the two country.