Why is the Great Cold the last solar term in a year?

The Great Cold Festival is a traditional festival in China, and it is also the most important sacrificial festival. This is a day to worship ancestors and add soil to the graves of deceased relatives. Grave-sweeping, commonly known as adding soil to the grave, is an activity of offering sacrifices to the dead. Han nationality and some ethnic minorities

Most of them sweep graves and add soil during the Great Cold Festival. Because there is Tomb-Sweeping Day early, there is the Great Cold Festival, which is also a national custom, so many people go to sweep graves as soon as the Great Cold Festival arrives. When sweeping graves, people should bring food, wine, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer food to the graves of their loved ones, then burn the paper money and some sacrifices, cultivate the soil for the graves, break some green branches and insert them on the graves, then kowtow to worship, and finally take the rest of the sacrifices home. Du Mu, a poet in Tang Dynasty

"Great Cold" poem: "It rains in the great cold season, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Ask local people where to buy wine? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. " Wrote the special atmosphere of the great cold.

To this day, the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors and mourning for deceased relatives is still very popular.