Qingming Festival

Qingming, often called Tomb-Sweeping Day, is a time for families to remember earlier generations. Many people visit graves, clear and tend burial sites, make offerings and pass family stories between generations. The combination of remembrance and spring renewal gives the festival a distinctive quiet importance.

Taiwan’s public holiday lets families make those visits and also take part in spring outings. Customs differ among communities and faiths, but respect for memorial spaces is central. In 2026, Qingming falls on Sunday, April 5, with Monday, April 6 as the official substitute day off.

Qingming Festival must be read through Taiwan’s current Memorial Days and Festivals framework and the legally relevant work calendar, not through a generic list of “public holidays.” The DGPA’s 2026 calendar directly governs central government administrative agencies; state-run enterprises generally follow it, while schools and police, fire, coast-guard and military bodies may adjust schedules under their competent authorities. Employees covered by the Labor Standards Act receive the applicable statutory holiday and wage treatment under Ministry of Labor rules, but banks, transport, hospitals and individual businesses publish operational hours separately. Revised scheduling rules no longer create compensatory Saturday work merely to manufacture a long weekend; a substitute rest day follows the applicable collision rule instead.