Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - What do Qingming and Chunshe Day mean?

What do Qingming and Chunshe Day mean?

Tomb-Sweeping Day, commonly known as Tomb-Sweeping Day, is one of the 24 solar terms. Spring Club Day is a day for offering sacrifices to the land gods in spring.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. It was celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day originated from the ancestral belief and the custom of worshipping spring in ancient times, which has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival. Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China. There was no fixed date in ancient times, and the dates chosen by the pre-Qin, Han, Wei and Jin dynasties were different. Since the Song Dynasty, the fifth day after beginning of spring was regarded as a social day.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional major Spring Festival. It is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times to sweep graves and remember our ancestors. It is not only conducive to promoting filial piety, awakening family memories, but also conducive to promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation. The Spring Festival is in February of the lunar calendar, offering sacrifices to the land gods and praying for a bumper harvest. People are used to drinking Zhonghe wine and Yichun wine, saying that it can cure ear diseases, so people also call it "deaf wine". Li in the Song Dynasty wrote in a poem: "Social people are not in the mood today and want a bottle of wine for the deaf. Disturbed Yutang will think about the past and vaguely patrol the third hall. "