Holiday arrangement in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Shijiazhuang

The holiday time of Tomb-Sweeping Day in Shijiazhuang in 2023 is April 5, 2023 *** 1 day, without rest.

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, which originated from the ancestor belief of early human beings, is the biggest ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation. Tomb-Sweeping Day has two connotations: nature and humanity. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival. Grave-sweeping and hiking are two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day customs handed down from ancient times in China.

Although Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, it became popular all over the country after the Tang and Song Dynasties and became a grave-sweeping festival. According to records, in the Tang Dynasty, because officials went back to their hometowns to sweep graves, they sometimes delayed their duty. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty issued a decree to solve the problem of holidays. Began to stipulate that the Cold Food Festival has a four-day holiday. In the sixth year of Zhenyuan (790), the holiday was increased to seven days. In this way, officials can calmly pay homage to the grave.

Cold food and Qingming in the Song Dynasty also had seven days' holiday. Grave-sweeping activities around Tomb-Sweeping Day often become the personal participation of the whole society. Within a few days, the country people came and went, and the scale was extremely prosperous.

1935, the government of the Republic of China designated April 5th as a national holiday in Tomb-Sweeping Day. On February 7, 2007, the 1 98th executive meeting in the State Council passed a decision to amend the Measures for Holidays of National Festival and Memorial Day, stipulating that Tomb-Sweeping Day will have a holiday of1day (the day of Tomb-Sweeping Day in the lunar calendar); In 2008, Tomb-Sweeping Day officially became a legal holiday, with a day off; In 2009, holidays in Tomb-Sweeping Day, including holidays, were changed to three days.

Recommended places for parent-child tour in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Shijiazhuang:

1, Shijiazhuang Zoo

The landscape layout in the park is asymmetric, with the ups and downs of the hidden wind mountain as the background, and the natural scenery and artificial buildings are skillfully and organically combined.

According to the topography, the park is divided into 18 functional areas, such as gate area, flamingo area, wetland bird area, office area, venue area, monkey mountain, central service area, children's animal area, bird forest area, alpine animal area, raptor animal area, Asian animal area, African animal area, Australian animal area, liger Valley, pastoral scenery area and mountaineering fitness area.

2. Singapore-Malaysia Theme Park

This is the only amusement park in the north with the theme of animals. Sima is a squirrel with positive energy. It led the squirrel family to fight against the evil fox gang and defend its "Sima Kingdom". Every landscape of the theme amusement park "Kingdom of Sima" embodies interesting stories between the squirrel family and the fox gang.