Where is China s first Ching Ming Festival held?

March 13 (Zhang En, Liang Bo) The "First National Qingming Festival" jointly sponsored by the Civilization Office of the Communist Party of China, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and Shanxi Province will be held in Shanxi in early April this year.

The relevant activities will be carried out in Jiexiu Mianshan, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province and Taiyuan, the provincial capital. The specific content will cover the first National Qingming Festival Cultural Forum, "Gathering on the Qingming Festival" large-scale art evening, the first National Qingming Festival calligraphy exhibition, art exhibition, photography exhibition, folk art exhibition, filming feature film "Qingming Festival", recording TV special lecture "Words Qingming", Qingming Festival sacrifice sweeping activities, the first national Qingming Festival kite performance competition, swing performance competition, cold food fair, poetry text message essay contest, Qingming Festival stamp launch ceremony, mass green outing activities, lucky tug-of-war activities, Keju exhibition competition, book publishing.

Relevant personages here believe that the holding of the "First National Qingming Festival" is of special significance. People take the Qingming Festival as the carrier, in the process of chasing the distance and remembering the feelings of the ancestors, popularize the knowledge of the Qingming Festival and the knowledge of civilized etiquette, actively advocate the festival concept of civilization, harmony, festivity and frugality, strive to develop a healthy and progressive festival culture, and vigorously promote the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation.

Chang Sixin, vice chairman of the China Folk Literature and Art Association and chairman of the Shanxi Provincial People's Association, said that a more important task of the event was to establish the "cultural symbol" of the Qingming Festival. He believes that the Spring Festival has the custom of eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the Lantern Festival has the custom of eating Lantern Festival and making a prosperous fire, the Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of eating zongzi, and the Qingming Festival has traditional items such as stepping on the green, kicking the shuttle, tug-of-war, swinging and so on. People need to reinforce these and strive to make them cultural symbols that people really accept.

According to historical data, Shanxi Province is the birthplace of China's Qingming Festival. During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a folk story of Jie Zitui carrying his mother hiding in the depths of the Mianshan Mountains, and Duke Wen of Jin had ordered that the day when Jie Zi Tui was burned to death was set as the Cold Food Festival. In the years that followed, the Qingming Festival gradually replaced the Cold Food Festival.

This year's Qingming Festival is the first statutory traditional holiday added to the regulations, and the folk Qingming Festival is included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list of festivals.

The first China Qingming (Cold Food) Cultural Festival was held in Mianshan, Shanxi Province on April 2.

Duration 15 days.

The date of the Qingming Festival is between April 4 and 6 of the Gregorian calendar every year, and the Qingming Festival has both natural and humanistic connotations, which is one of the "24 solar terms" and a traditional ancestor worship festival. Before and after the Qingming Festival, people have to worship their ancestors and sweep the tombs, remember their ancestors, not only that, but also go out to go out, fly kites, plant trees, and enjoy the fun of spring.

It is said to have started in ancient times when emperors and generals were prime ministers"Tomb offerings"Later, the folk also followed suit, worshipping the ancestors and sweeping the tombs on this day, which has been followed by successive generations and has become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation. Originally, the Cold Food Festival and the Qingming Festival were two different festivals, and in the Tang Dynasty, the day of worshipping and sweeping the tomb was set as the Cold Food Festival. The correct day of the Cold Food Festival is one hundred and five days after the winter solstice, about around the time of Qingming, because the two days are similar, so the Qingming and cold food are combined into one day.

In Chinese history, it has long been a custom to ban fire and pay tribute to ancestors.

Qingming Festival carries a rich cultural connotation in the historical development, the country due to different regions and there are differences in the content or details of customs, although the festival activities are not the same, but sweeping the tomb to worship the ancestors, outing is the common basic theme of etiquette.

During the Qingming season, no matter where they are, people will return to their hometowns to participate in ancestor worship activities and remember their ancestors. The Qingming ritual culture fully embodies the humanistic spirit of the Chinese nation to respect the ancestors and pursue the future cautiously. In the ancestral sacrifice ceremony, the joy of spring in the outing, cultural inheritance and physical and mental adjustment are important functions of Qingming ritual culture.

There is only one Qingming Festival on April 5th.

Qingming Festival is one of the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar, at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, 108 days after the winter solstice, the solar terms are formulated according to the solar calendar, and there is no leap year in the solar calendar.

The traditional Qingming Festival of the Han Chinese people began around the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years.

This year's Qingming Festival is April 5, 2023.

2023 Qingming Festival time: April 5, Wednesday, the 15th day of the second lunar leap month. Qingming Festival is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation, which is not only a solemn festival of sweeping tombs and worshipping ancestors, but also a joyful festival for people to get close to nature, go out to play, and enjoy the fun of spring.

At this time, the vitality is vigorous, all things "spit out the old and accept the new", and the earth presents the image of spring and scenery, which is a good season for the suburbs to go on a youth tour and perform the tomb sacrifice. The Qingming Ancestor Festival is very long, there are two sayings before and 8 days before and 10 days before and 10 days after, which are all during the Qingming Ancestor Festival in the past 20 days. 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. The Qingming Festival has both the natural and humanistic connotations, which is not only a natural solar term, but also a traditional festival, and the tomb sweeping and ancestor worship and outing are the two major ritual themes of the Qingming Festival, which have been inherited in China since ancient times. Qingming Festival Activities:

1. Outing: Outing is also called spring outing, in ancient times it was called exploring spring, looking for spring, etc., during the Qingming Dynasty it is the spring breeze and spring season, when all things sprout, the natural world Boshan everywhere presents a vibrant scene, so at this time it has long become a custom to go out. 2. Sweep the tomb and worship the ancestors:

Qingming Festival is the most grand and grand ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation, which belongs to a kind of cultural traditional festival that respects ancestors and chases the distance carefully. 3. Willow insertion: Qingming Festival is the time in the base core of willow germination and greening, so the folk have the custom of folding willow, wearing willow and inserting willow on Qingming Festival.

4. Kite flying: There is also the custom of kite flying during the Qingming Festival, and people not only fly it during the day, but also at night.