Will Tomb-Sweeping Day have a holiday 1 day in 2023?

There is only one legal holiday in Tomb-Sweeping Day that day. The reason why I put it for three days is because it is next to or occupied by the weekend. Through rest, it becomes a three-day holiday. In 2023, Tomb-Sweeping Day is on Wednesday, April 5th, which is not next to or occupied by weekends, so there is only one holiday.

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 is the biggest ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation, which originated from ancestors' beliefs and customs of worshipping spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day has two connotations of nature and humanity, which are both natural solar terms and traditional festivals. Grave-sweeping and ancestor-worship outing are two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day, which have been passed down since ancient times in China.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. Besides China, some countries and regions in the world also have Tomb-Sweeping Day, such as Viet Nam, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore. On May 20th, 2006, with the approval of the State Council, Tomb-Sweeping Day announced by People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Ministry of Culture was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

Seasonal food in Tomb-Sweeping Day:

With the cold food custom of the Cold Food Festival transplanted to Tomb-Sweeping Day, some places in northern China still keep the habit of eating cold food in Tomb-Sweeping Day. In Shandong, Jimo eats eggs and cool cakes, while Laiyang, Zhaoyuan and Long Island eat eggs and cool sorghum rice. It is said that if not, there will be hail. Taian eats cold pancakes and rolls bitter vegetables. It is said that his eyes are bright. Jinzhong area still retains the habit of banning fire the day before Qingming. In many places, after the sacrificial ceremony is completed, food will be sacrificed.

People in southern Shanxi used to steam steamed bread with white flour, with walnuts, dates and beans in the middle. The records of folk cold food customs almost suddenly appeared in the documents of the Eastern Han Dynasty, mainly concentrated in Shanxi. Even in the Tang and Song Dynasties, when the custom of cold food was quite popular, its spread did not come from the north. The Jin Dynasty's "Zhong Ye Ji" first talked about the special food in cold food: "On the day of cold food, you can cook preserved cheese, boiled japonica rice and wheat as cheese, and boiled apricot red as porridge." Until the Tang and Song Dynasties, people were still eating this kind of cold coix seed porridge.