When is Tomb-Sweeping Day in 2022?

What is the Qingming time in 2022? How many minutes and seconds?

The weather time in Tomb-Sweeping Day in 2022 is 3: 20: 3 on April 5, 2022 in Gregorian calendar and Tuesday on March 5, 2022 in lunar calendar.

Qingming means that the sky is crisp and the land is refreshing. The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day in China began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Tomb-Sweeping Day, "Huainanzi Astronomical Training" says: "The fifteenth day after the vernal equinox refers to the second hour, when the wind is clear." Another article, A Hundred Questions at the Age, explains this: "Everything grows clean and bright at this time. So it is called Qingming. "

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the traditional festivals in China, also known as the outing festival, the outing festival, the March festival and the ancestor worship festival. This festival is held at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day originated from the ancestral belief and the custom of worshipping spring in ancient times, which has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival. Grave-sweeping and outing are the two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day etiquette and customs, and these two traditional themes have been passed down from ancient times to the present in China.

The main customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day

offer sacrifices to ancestors

Qingming is an important day to sweep graves and worship ancestors. In the solar terms, spring comes back to the earth with flowers, which is the time for outing, enjoying spring and exploring spring. In such a beautiful season, with the arrival of Tomb-Sweeping Day, there are many festival cultures. The habit of frolicking in Tomb-Sweeping Day was formed as early as the Tang Dynasty, which was accompanied by holiday customs such as swinging, tug-of-war, collecting herbs, flying kites, cuju, playing polo, inserting willows and planting trees. Sacrificing ancestors to sweep graves and hiking constitute two parallel components of Tomb-Sweeping Day in later generations. If Tomb-Sweeping Day highlights the nature of festivals by offering sacrifices to ancestors and sweeping graves, then an outing can show Tomb-Sweeping Day's festival culture from another level. Let's take a look at the festival culture in Tomb-Sweeping Day that accompanied the outing.

spring outing

Qingming is a good season for hiking. Throughout the Cold Food Festival in the Tang Dynasty, we can see that there are many records about outings and various festival games related to them. Speaking of the custom of forming this cold food festival outing, it really makes sense. In the bright spring solar terms, the coolness brought by the cold winter is swept away, everything recovers and the grass is lush. How can we stop those who have finished sweeping their ancestors' tombstones in the suburbs from lingering? In addition, the Cold Food Festival in the Tang Dynasty also stipulated "vacation". I believe that people will not waste their time on such a trip because of the abundant time, the right place and the right solar terms. However, with the spread of this kind of outing in the suburbs after sweeping graves in the whole country, the Tang Dynasty began to worry that those people would look down on sweeping graves and tend to go out to play, which obviously did not conform to the custom of introducing this festival at first.

Chuanliuzhi

This is another interesting habit of Tomb-Sweeping Day, so in the past, Tomb-Sweeping Day was also called Willow Festival. There are many forms of willow insertion and willow penetration. The most common thing is to insert wicker on the door. Women wear willows as seasonal decorations, while children wear hats made of wicker. Because there are not many willows in the city, people often break a few wickers when they come back from an outing, or insert or wear them. "Scenery of the Imperial Capital" describes the custom of inserting willows for tourists who go hiking during the Qingming Festival.

There is another saying in Tomb-Sweeping Day: It turns out that China people regard Tomb-Sweeping Day, July 30th and the first day of October as the three major ghost festivals, which are the time for ghosts to haunt and ask for help. In order to prevent the harassment and persecution of ghosts, people put willows and put them on. Willow has the function of ward off evil spirits in people's minds. Influenced by Buddhism, people think that wicker can exorcise ghosts, which is called "fear of ghost wood". Guanyin sells water with wicker to help all beings. Jia Si of the Northern Wei Dynasty was very angry with Yao Minshu of Qi State, and said, "Put a willow branch on the house, and a hundred ghosts will not enter." Tomb-Sweeping Day is a ghost festival. When the season of wicker germination comes, people naturally insert willows and wear willows to avoid evil spirits.

fly a kite

Flying kites is also the most popular activity in Tomb-Sweeping Day. During their stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people not only wore it during the day, but also at night. At night, a string of colored lanterns is hung under the kite or on the wind-stabilizing stay, like twinkling stars, which is called "magic lamp". Someone used to put kites in the blue sky, then cut the strings and let the breeze send them to the ends of the earth. It is said that this can eliminate diseases and disasters and bring good luck to yourself.

play on the swing

This is the custom of ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day in China. Wang Renyu of the Five Dynasties wrote in the "Tianbao Legacy of Kaiyuan": "The swing was actually set up at the Mid-solstice Cold Food Festival in Tianbao Palace, which made the ladies-in-waiting laugh and thought it was a feast. The emperor called it a semi-fairy play, and the scholars in the capital called it. " Wen Yanbo, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, wrote a poem "Cold Food Festival Crossing the Dragon Gate", which was described as: "On the bridge, the willows are lined with colorful ropes." Swing, that is, lift the rope, move.

play football

Bow is a rubber ball, the skin of which is made of leather, and the ball is stuffed with wool. Cuju is kicking the ball with your feet. This is a popular game in ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to legend, it was invented by the Yellow Emperor with the original purpose of training warriors.