What is the fifth solar term in spring?

The fifth solar term in spring is Qingming.

Qingming Festival is one of the twenty-four solar terms. Tomb-Sweeping Day is named after the sunny and beautiful weather, and everything is obvious during the festival. Qingming is a solar term that reflects the phenological changes in nature. At this time, the sun is shining, plants are sprouting, flowers are in full bloom, and nature presents a vibrant scene. In the south of China, it has become a clear and beautiful image at this time; It began to snow in the north, the temperature rose, and spring blossomed.

Qingming usually changes from April 4 to 6 in the Gregorian calendar, and it is not fixed on a certain day, but April 5 is the most common. Tomb-Sweeping Day is both a solar term and a festival, and Tomb-Sweeping Day atmosphere provides important conditions for the formation of Tomb-Sweeping Day customs in terms of time and weather phenology.

Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi, which is related to the phenology of 20 years old, is often used to guide farming, indicating that the weather is fine and spring ploughing is timely. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a day when people pay homage to their ancestors and pursue the future cautiously. Because of the integration of the two, Qingming has both natural and humanistic connotations.

Seasonal food in Tomb-Sweeping Day

In Tomb-Sweeping Day, the most common seasonal food is Qingming jiaozi. Qingming Tangyuan is a small dumpling made of glutinous rice flour, which is filled with stuffing such as bean paste, jujube paste and sesame seeds, and covered with bamboo leaves. It is round and lovely in shape.

Besides Qingming dumplings, there are other seasonal foods. For example, in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, people eat green balls. Qingtuan is a kind of small dumpling made of wormwood leaf juice and glutinous rice flour, which is filled with bean paste and sesame seeds, and has a soft and fragrant taste. In Guangdong, Fujian and other places, people will eat wormwood, which is a kind of cake made of wormwood leaf juice and glutinous rice flour, with stuffing such as bean paste and sesame seeds.

In addition to these traditional seasonal foods, modern people have created many new Tomb-Sweeping Day foods. For example, in some areas in the south, people will eat Qingming fruit. Qingming fruit is a jiaozi-shaped food, which is made of glutinous rice flour, vegetables, meat and other materials. It's delicious. In some northern areas, people will eat Qingming jiaozi, a kind of jiaozi made of flour, which is filled with vegetables and meat.