Qingming would have made a nice loanword, like kung fu or feng shui, but it wasn't meant to be. Although there are a billion Chinese speakers, qing and ming never quite made it into any Western lexicon. Why?
Use your phone to 'call' the dead
------------------------------------------------------------------------Parents grieve loss of their only child
Famous scenic spots along Yellow River
------------------------------------------------------------------------Traditional snacks during Qingming Festival
Name: Yang Lijun
Date of death: Mar. 22, 2013
Yang Lijun, 21, disappeared into a 6-meter-deep hole in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan province, on Mar. 22, 2013.
Name: Zhuang Zedong
Date of death: Feb. 10, 2013
Zhuang Zedong, 73, died of rectal cancer; he was one of the world's best ping-pong players in the 1960s, and famous as his participation in the historic Sino-US ping-pong diplomacy in the 1970s.