Xinhua Headlines: China reinvents ancestral veneration with green, modern goodbyes

BEIJING, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Amid gentle sea breezes and blooming memorial flowers, and through 3D-printed facial restoration of the deceased and AI-powered farewells, China is breathing new life into traditional tomb-sweeping rituals on Qingming Festival, which falls on Friday.

With its dual identity as both a solar term and a festival, Qingming, which has a history of over 2,500 years, sees tens of millions ho