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Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese folk festival, is one of China's important "eight festivals of the year" (Shangyuan, Qingming, Lixia, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhongyuan, Mid-Autumn Festival, Winter Solstice, Chinese New Year's Eve), generally around April 5 in the Gregorian calendar, the festival period is very long, there are 10 days before 8 days and 10 days before 10 days after two sayings, these nearly 20 days are Qingming Festival.

To talk about the Qingming Festival, we need to start with a festival - the Cold Food Festival.

The cold food festival, also known as the hot food festival, the non-smoking festival, the cold festival, its date is 108 days away from the winter solstice, that is, only one or two days away from the Qingming Festival, the main custom of this festival is to prohibit fire, no fire is allowed to cook, can only eat prepared hot food, cold food, hence the name.

The origin of the Qingming Festival, it is said that it began in the ancient emperors and generals of the "tomb sacrifice" ceremony, and later the folk also followed suit, on this day to worship the ancestors and sweep the tomb, the successive dynasties have become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation.

The name "Qingming Festival" also comes from the Qingming solar term in the 24 solar terms of the Chinese lunar calendar. The 108th day after the winter solstice is the Qingming solar term. There are 15 days of Qingming solar terms.

As the Qingming of the solar term, the time is after the vernal equinox. At this time, winter has gone, spring is full of joy, the weather is clear, the four fields are clear, and nature is full of vitality. "Qingming" is a very appropriate word to call this period.

Qingming Festival, also known as the Qingqing Festival, is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the most important sacrificial festivals, which is a day to sweep tombs and worship ancestors.

The traditional Qingming Festival of the Chinese nation began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Through the development and evolution of history, Qingming has a very rich connotation, and different customs have developed in various places, and sweeping tombs to worship ancestors and outings are the basic themes.

Qingming is one of the 24 solar terms and the fifth solar term of spring.

The "24 solar terms" were originally determined by the pointing of the top of the Big Dipper's handle, which started from the "Yin position" and then clockwise.

Rotation, when the bucket handle points to the "B position", it is the Qingming solar term.

During the Qingming season, the temperature warms, the grass and trees sprout, the weather is clear and clear, and everything is thriving. Dry farming in the north and early and middle rice in the south of the Yangtze River.

In the suitable season for sowing in large quantities, people have rolled up their sleeves, rolled up their trousers, and went to the field to sow seeds early. The north and south of the river, the Great Wall.

Inside and outside, there is a busy scene of spring ploughing everywhere.

Traditional customs: 1. Qingming Festival is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation, which is not only a solemn festival for sweeping tombs and worshipping ancestors, but also for people to get close to nature and go on a trip.

A joyful festival to play and enjoy the fun of spring.

2. The standard worship is also called "Qingming hanger", every year on the Qingming Festival, each family and all ethnic groups have finished sweeping the sacrifice, and often insert a bamboo in front of the tomb or on the grave.

A pole made of a son or wicker indicates that there has been a sacrifice.

3. Every household in the Yellow River Basin, Huaihe River Basin, Yangtze River Basin and other places inserts willows on the door and hangs willows under the eaves on the day of the Qingming Festival

Women wear willows on their heads, men wear willows, children blow willow pipes, and willows are hung in front of the grave.

4. During the Qingming Festival, the customs and habits of eating Qingtuanzi in the south of the Yangtze River are around.

Qingming Festival, also known as the Qingqing Festival, at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, the 108th day after the winter solstice, is one of the traditional Chinese festivals, and also one of the most important sacrificial festivals, is the day of ancestor worship and tomb sweeping. The traditional Qingming Festival of the Han Chinese people began around the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Because the Qingming Festival is on the 108th day after the winter solstice, and the winter solstice is on December 22 or December 23, the time of the Qingming Festival has also changed.

Some years it falls on April 4, while others it falls on April 5.

Since about the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, most of the people have to go to the suburbs because of the Qingming Festival to worship their ancestors, and in addition to mourning their ancestors, they also have to go to the green fields in the bright spring light. Therefore, the Qingming Festival is also known as the Qingqing Festival. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, the Qingming Dynasty gradually formed a traditional festival centered on worshipping ancestors and sweeping tombs, integrating cold food customs with activities such as Shangsi outing.

Nowadays, in addition to being an important traditional folk festival in China, Qingming Festival is also a national statutory holiday. On this day, while people sweep the tombs during the Qingming Festival, they are also accompanied by activities of walking and recreation. Therefore, Qingming not only has the sentimental feelings of chasing after the end of the day, but also has the festive atmosphere of joy and spring appreciation.

The knowledge related to the Qingming Festival is as follows:

Qing Annihilation is one of the 24 solar terms, and it is also an important traditional festival in China, and the festival time is around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar every year. It is recorded in the "Almanac": "On the fifteenth day after the spring equinox, Dou Zhi Ding, for Qingming, when everything is clean and clear, when the air is clear and the scenery is clear, everything is revealed, so it is named."

The traditional Chinese Qingming Festival began in the Zhou Dynasty, with a history of more than 2,500 years, and the temperature began to rise gradually, which is a good time for spring ploughing, marking the beginning of the new year's farming.

There are many customs during the Qingming Festival, including tomb sweeping, walking green, tree planting, willow planting, kite flying, swinging, and so on. Climatically speaking, the festival of the Qingming Festival is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, the weather is warmer, everything recovers, and people have taken spring outings to feel the nature, so the Qingming Festival is also called the "Qingqing Festival".

In addition, the most important custom of the Qingming Festival is "tomb sweeping", in fact, tomb sweeping was originally the custom of the cold food festival, Tang Xuanzong ordered "cold food to the tomb", because the cold food festival was the day before the Qingming Festival, and then the two festivals gradually merged, and it evolved into the tomb sweeping of the Qingming Festival.

Qingming Festival, also known as the Qingqing Festival, Xingqing Festival, March Festival, Ancestor Festival, etc., the festival period is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. The Qingming Festival originates from the ancestral beliefs and spring sacrifice customs of ancient times, and is the most grand ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation.

Qingming Festival has both natural and humanistic connotations, is not only a natural solar term, but also a traditional festival, tomb sweeping and ancestor worship and outing are the two major ritual themes of the Qingming Festival, these two traditional ritual themes have been inherited in China since ancient times, and they have not stopped until now.

Qingming Festival is a festival of the Chinese nation, which is not only a solemn festival of sweeping tombs and worshipping ancestors, but also a happy brother talk festival for people to get close to nature, go out to play, and enjoy the fun of spring. Douzhi B (or the yellow longitude of the sun reaches 15 °) is the Qingming solar term.