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Are Qingming Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day the same day in solar terms?

Tomb-Sweeping Day and Tomb-Sweeping Day in the solar terms are on the same day.

Every year, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Tomb-Sweeping Day are called Tomb-Sweeping Day on the same day, that is, after the vernal equinox 15, also known as the "outing festival". Qingming, one of the 24 solar terms, is the fifth solar term in spring. When the sun reaches longitude 15, the sky is clear.

During the Qingming period, the atmosphere was clear and everything appeared, hence the name. Qingming is both a solar term and a festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a good time for spring ploughing and planting; Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival for people to express their feelings and comfort themselves. Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi provides important conditions for the formation of Tomb-Sweeping Day customs in terms of time and weather phenology.

The origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day:

The name "Tomb-Sweeping Day" also comes from the Tomb-Sweeping Day atmosphere in the twenty-four solar terms of the China lunar calendar. 105 The first day after winter is Qi Tomb-Sweeping Day. One hundred and five days after beginning of winter, the solstice was called cold food. In the past, fire was forbidden and cold food was eaten, so it was also called "Cold Food Festival" and "No Smoking Festival". According to folklore, cold food is to commemorate the burning of mesons in Mianshan during the Spring and Autumn Period, and Jin Wengong ordered the fire to be banned.

Jiezitui is from Shanxi, so the custom of cold food is first popular in Shanxi. In the old days, cold food cut off fire, and the next day there was a ceremony to drill wood for fire in the palace, and the people also begged each other for fire with wicker.