Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - What's Tomb-Sweeping Day's nickname?

What's Tomb-Sweeping Day's nickname?

Tomb-Sweeping Day's nicknames are outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, cold food festival, willow festival and swing festival.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's time is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. In solar terms, Qingming is a "festival", but it is also a major festival. Among the 24 solar terms, it is both a solar term and a festival, only Qingming. Because Qingming is a "two festivals", it has both natural colors and humanistic connotations, which can not only reflect the changes of weather and phenology, but also bring its own distinctive traditional cultural characteristics.

Characteristics of Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day's climate features: dry and windy in the north, preventing forest fires. The northern part of China is characterized by rapid temperature rise, scarce precipitation, dryness and windy weather. In many northern areas, the average temperature in April reached 10℃ ~ 15℃. It is not surprising that the temperature in these areas sometimes rises significantly during the Qingming period in mid-April. The germination of vegetation in the forest farm coincides with the spring outing, grave sweeping and tree planting season, so it is very important to prevent forest fires.