Is Qingming a festival or a solar term?

Qingming is one of the twenty-four solar terms and the fifth solar term in spring. Refers to bucket B, when the sun reaches longitude 15, it will be fine. Clear is clear, everything is clear, hence the name. Qingming is a solar term that reflects the phenological changes in nature. At this time, the sun is shining, plants are sprouting and flowers are in full bloom. Nature presents a vibrant scene. At this time, South China has presented a clear and bright image; It began to snow in the north, the temperature rose, and spring blossomed.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is both a solar term and a festival, and the atmosphere of Tomb-Sweeping Day provides important conditions for the formation of Tomb-Sweeping Day customs in terms of time and weather phenology. Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi, which is related to the phenology of 18 years old, is often used to guide farming, indicating that the weather is fine and spring ploughing is timely; Tomb-Sweeping Day is a day when people visit graves to worship their ancestors, and pursue the future with caution. Because of the integration of the two, Qingming has both natural and humanistic connotations. The main customs of Qingming are: sweeping graves, hiking, swinging, flying kites, planting trees and inserting willows.