Is Qingming the same in Tomb-Sweeping Day and the 24 solar terms? Is Qingming a solar term or a festival?

1 24 Is Tomb-Sweeping Day the same as Qingming in the solar terms?

At first, Tomb-Sweeping Day was just the name of a solar term, which became a festival to commemorate ancestors and was related to the Cold Food Festival. Generally speaking, Qingming is also the arrival time of Tomb-Sweeping Day, but the calculation time in Tomb-Sweeping Day changes every year, usually on April 5th or 6th, but Tomb-Sweeping Day and Qingming actually mean the same thing.

Whether Qingming is a solar term or a festival is both a solar term and a festival.

Around April 5th every year, it is Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi, and when the sun reaches longitude 15 degrees, it is Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi. Qingming is both a solar term and a festival among the 24 solar terms, so Qingming is both a solar term and a festival.

The meaning of Qingming in the twenty-four solar terms is an ancient festival of our nation, which is not only a solemn festival to sweep graves and worship ancestors, but also a happy festival for people to get close to nature, go for an outing and enjoy the fun of spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day is located around April 5th of the Gregorian calendar, that is,15th after the vernal equinox every year. Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi symbolizes that everything is full of vitality and decay, and the earth is full of spring.

What are the solar terms and vernal equinox before Tomb-Sweeping Day?

The vernal equinox is the midpoint of 90 days in spring and one of the 24 solar terms. It is the solar term in front of Tomb-Sweeping Day around February 15 of the lunar calendar every year, and from March 20th to March 20th -2 1 in the solar calendar, when the sun is located at 0 (vernal equinox) on the yellow meridian.