Tomb-Sweeping Day China's traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day which is on April 5th each year is a statutory public holiday in mainland China. It is a time to memorize the deceased and visit ancestrol graves. In this day people clean or rebuild the graves and bring many different kinds of sacrificial offerings like food，fruits，spiced alcohol，hell bank notes ，grave clothes and so on as gifts to the dead. And people also lift candles，burn incenses and set off firecrackers in front of the graves. Flying kites is way to honor the ancestors as well in some regions.