As millions paused to honor their ancestors during the annual Tomb-Sweeping Festival, the increasing cost of cemetery plots and funerals has become a focus of national anger.

随着中国人在一年一度的清明节期间祭祀先人，公墓及殡葬服务价格暴涨成为激起民愤的一个焦点问题。

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Do you have holidays on Tomb Sweeping Festival?

你清明节有放假吗？

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Do you have any idea about the origin of Tomb Sweeping Festival?

你知道清明节的起源吗？

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Global Times adds that street vendors have been arrested for selling paper models of the iPhone 5 as part of an environmental clean-up campaign against burning paper ancestral offerings for the upcoming Tomb-Sweeping Festival in early April.

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The government has mooted reforms that would reduce May Day observance to a single day and distribute the rest over a series of one-day holidays for the traditional Tomb Sweeping day, Dragon Boat festival and Mid-Autumn festival.

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