Beijing residents tend their ancestors' graves during the annual Qingming festival, also known as Tomb Sweeping Day, at a cemetery west of Beijing. The public holiday is a traditional day of remembrance for the dead, where it is customary for Chinese to sweep off the gravestones and air out the ash boxes of their loved ones.

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