Children put on a performance at the opening ceremony of the Qingming Cultural Festival in Kaifeng city, Henan province on April 3. The festival this year features performances, Song Dynasty (960-1279) dresses and honoring ancestors. Qingming Festival, or Tomb Sweeping Day- which falls on April 4 this year - is a national festival stretching back more than 2,500 years for people to honor and remember their deceased loved ones at cemeteries and memorials. [Photo/Xinhua]

People walk past a statue, placed there to promote a restaurant, at a shopping district in Beijing April 3, 2013. [Photo/Agencies]