It originated as a spring renewal holiday, complete with colored eggs. Over time, Qing Ming has evolved into a commemoration of the dead. Ancestors are honored through the cleaning and maintenance of gravesites. Wine and rice is offered to the dead, and a picnic is eaten at the site. Paper in the form of money, cars, or houses is burned for use by the deceased in the afterlife.
Incense is lit to ask if the ancestors are satisfied with the actions of the living.
Solar New Year . In Cambodia, it is the most significant holiday of the year, and is called Chaul Chnam , beginning on April 13th and lasting for 3 days. Special foods, such as fried coconut and bananas rolled in coconut are offered the to the New Year Angel, who descends with good luck or ill will for the upcoming year. Festival of the Sardine . In a ceremony whose history is lost to the ages, the end of the Easter season is celebrated in Murcia, Spain with a parade through the town ending with the burning of a huge, papier mache sardine.