When is Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is around April 5th of the Gregorian calendar every year.

Qingming means Qingming, Qingming. It is a solar term that reflects the phenological changes in nature. At this time, the sun is shining, plants are sprouting, the air is fresh, everything is alive, and nature presents a vibrant scene. By Qingming, the climate in the south has been refreshing and warm, and the earth presents a quiet image of spring; In the northern region, the snow began to fall, and gradually entered the sunny spring.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's ancestor worship is very long, 8 days before Tomb-Sweeping Day 10 and 8 days after Tomb-Sweeping Day 10. These nearly 20 days belong to Tomb-Sweeping Day who worships his ancestors.

Related activities Tomb-Sweeping Day is the Spring Festival of the Chinese nation, and the Spring Festival in Tomb-Sweeping Day corresponds to the Autumn Festival of Chongyang and the Spring Festival in Spring and Autumn, which has existed since ancient times. Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, which changes with the development of the times. Later, it gradually merged the customs of Cold Food Festival and Shangsi Festival. In ancient times, the north and south of China had different customs. Before the Tang Dynasty, grave sweeping in northern China was mainly in the Cold Food Festival and the Cold Clothes Festival.

According to the Book of Rites and other documents, before the Tang Dynasty, there was no custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day going to the grave to offer sacrifices to sweep, but in the Tang Dynasty, Tomb-Sweeping Day offered sacrifices to sweep has become an atmosphere. The Tang Dynasty was a period of integration of China's northern and southern tombs' sacrificial customs, which followed the Qingming tombs' sacrificial customs and spread all over the country. After the Tang Dynasty, the Cold Food Festival gradually declined, because it was similar to Tomb-Sweeping Day. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Tomb-Sweeping Day's position in all parts of the country rose, and the custom of forbidding fire and cold food was incorporated into the cold food festival.