Is Tomb-Sweeping Day Shangsi Festival? Is Qingming early spring or late spring?

Is Tomb-Sweeping Day Shangsi Festival?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is not Shangsi Festival, but Tomb-Sweeping Day combines some traditions and customs of Shangsi Festival.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a festival and a solar term, the fifth solar term in spring. Celebrated every year from April 4th to 5th in the Gregorian calendar. In other words, Tomb-Sweeping Day originally existed with solar terms.

However, the spirit of Tomb-Sweeping Day lies between Hanyi Festival and Shangsi Festival, both of which belong to sacrificial festivals, so Qingming in the middle gradually merged these two festivals and became the most important sacrificial festival in spring. Is Qingming early spring or late spring?

In Tomb-Sweeping Day, April 4th or 5th of the Gregorian calendar is basically the end of spring.

According to the lunar calendar, January to March is spring, April to June is summer, July to September is autumn, and October to December is winter.

According to meteorology, March-May is spring, June-August is summer, September-165438+1October is autumn, and 65438+2-February is winter.

In terms of solar terms, February to April is spring, May to July is summer, August to 10 is autumn, and 1 1 is winter.

Qingming is the fifth solar term in spring, which belongs to late autumn. Judging from the climatic conditions, the average daily temperature in most areas of China has risen above 12℃ except the northeast and northwest regions, while it is stable at around 20℃ in the south, so the difference between the north and the south is still relatively large.

Generally speaking, during the Qingming period, the north was in a good spring season, the south entered the middle and late spring, and some areas even began to transition to summer.