When is Tomb-Sweeping Day in 2023?

Tomb-Sweeping Day in 2023 falls on April 5, 2023 in the solar calendar and on Wednesday, February 15 in the lunar calendar.

The meaning of Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi is clear and beautiful, and everything is obvious, hence the name. Tomb-Sweeping Day is on April 4th or 5th every year. At this time, the sun is shining, plants sprout, flowers bloom and nature is full of vitality.

Qingming is both a solar term and a festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a good time for spring ploughing and planting. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a time for grave-sweeping, ancestor worship and outing. Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi provides important conditions for the formation of Tomb-Sweeping Day customs in terms of time and weather phenology. The main customs of Qingming are: forbidding fire, sweeping graves, climbing mountains, cuju and inserting willows.

Introduction:

Tomb-Sweeping Day began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Tomb-Sweeping Day is first of all a very important solar term. As soon as Tomb-Sweeping Day arrives, the temperature rises, which is a good season for spring ploughing and planting. Therefore, there is a proverb "Before and after Qingming Festival, plant melons and beans". Later, as Tomb-Sweeping Day and the Cold Food Festival approached, and the Cold Food Festival was a day when people were forbidden to burn graves, gradually, the Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day became one. Tomb-Sweeping Day was officially established as a legal holiday in 2008. April 4th, 2008 is the first legal holiday in Tomb-Sweeping Day.