What day is Tomb-Sweeping Day? What are the customs and origins?

202 1 year Tomb-Sweeping Day Date: April 4th, February 23rd, Year of the Ox. Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as Walking Festival, Walking Festival, March Festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. It was celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day originated from the ancestral belief and the custom of worshipping spring in ancient times, which has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.

Tomb-Sweeping Day Custom Content: Grave-sweeping and ancestor worship.

spring outing

Chuanliuzhi

please oneself

a rat race

plant trees

fly a kite

play on the swing

Liu She

play football

gamecock

Canhuahui

No fire and cold food.

The origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day Tomb-Sweeping Day is said to have originated from the "tomb sacrifice" ceremony of ancient emperors and generals. Later, people followed suit, and it became a fixed custom of the Chinese nation to worship ancestors and sweep graves on this day. Through historical development, Tomb-Sweeping Day has integrated the customs of Cold Food Festival and Shangsi Festival in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and integrated various folk customs, which has extremely rich cultural connotations.

Tomb-Sweeping Day agricultural proverb Before the rain hits Qingming, there will be frequent spring rains (Lu).

It rains from time to time in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Continue for three months (Guangxi). It's rare to have sunny days in Tomb-Sweeping Day and cloudy days in Grain Rain.

Qingming is not afraid of sunny, and Grain Rain is not afraid of rain (black).

Before the rain is clear, the depression is conducive to farming (black).

When it rains on a sunny day, a sorghum hits a liter (black).

It's sunny and rainy in Grain Rain (Jiangxi).

Snow breaks on Qingming Day and frost breaks in Grain Rain (East China, Central China, South China, Sichuan, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau).

Snow breaks in Qingming Festival and frost breaks in Grain Rain (Hebei and Shanxi).

Qingming without rain and drought, Qingming with rain (Jiangsu, Hubei).