Is Qingming a solar term or a traditional festival?

Qingming is a festival and a solar term.

Among the 24 solar terms, Qingming is the only solar term that is both a solar term and a festival. Qingming is the fifth of the 24 solar terms and the beginning of the calendar. The time point is around the first day of the third lunar month (April 4-6 in Gregorian calendar), and the sun reaches longitude 15.

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 ancient ancestors' belief and custom of worshipping spring, which has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is not only a natural solar term, but also a traditional festival.