Can Tomb-Sweeping Day burn paper in February 2023?

Whether you can burn paper on Qingming this month depends on the customs in your area. In most parts of China, it is customary not to burn paper on Qingming Festival in February.

It happened to be Tomb-Sweeping Day in February this year, and then many people saw many sayings that Tomb-Sweeping Day could not go to the grave. The argument about this statement is actually very simple. The last time I met Qingming in leap February was in 2004. If I can go to the grave, I just need to ask the old people or parents in the village, and that will be clear. As for the argument that Tomb-Sweeping Day really can't go to the grave in some areas, it may be because the time to go to the grave in this area is the Mid-Autumn Festival or other festivals.

Many places believe that leap years and leap months can completely add soil to the graves of respected elders. In fact, there is no scientific basis for this. On this day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, we can go to the grave to pay homage to our dead relatives according to our own ideas.

Double spring leap in February

2023 is the year of the rabbit in the lunar calendar, with a leap in February and 384 days a year. The long time span leads to two calendar phenomena in beginning of spring, namely, the year of double-headed spring, also known as the year of double spring. The reason why we leap into February is that after February this year, there is only one solar term, and there is no neutral atmosphere. According to the lunar calendar 19, the month without neutral atmosphere is a leap month, so the month after February is a leap February.

Whether it is double spring or leap February, it is a normal calendar phenomenon. Although leap February is relatively rare, for example, there is a folk saying that it is difficult to meet leap February in ten years, but it has nothing to do with good luck. There are many folk sayings about the year of double spring, such as "two spring and one winter, ten cows and nine empty pens", "two spring a year, fur is as expensive as gold" and "two spring a year, fur pods are as expensive as gold". And they think the year of double spring is hard.