The story
- Chinese · borrowed from清明“Pure & Bright”
- English todayQingming Festival
A partial calque of Mandarin 清明節 /清明节 (Qīngmíngjié), using the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 清明 (Qīngmíng, “Pure & Bright”), the solar term of the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar on which the holiday is celebrated. Doublet of Pure Brightness Festival.
Words from the same roots
Chinese清明 all →
Qingming
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.