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Will the Qingming Festival last for three days or one day in 2023?

Tomb-Sweeping Day has a day off;

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in a year, and it will have a holiday and rest at this time of the year, and Tomb-Sweeping Day in 2023 is no exception. In most cases, Tomb-Sweeping Day has a three-day holiday.

But in 2023, Tomb-Sweeping Day will only have one day off, because it happens to be Wednesday, so we can't have a weekend off.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is calculated according to the Gregorian calendar, which comes around April 5 every year. Tomb-Sweeping Day is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation. It is not only a solemn festival to sweep graves and worship ancestors, but also a happy festival for people to get close to nature, go for an outing and enjoy the fun of spring.

Tomb-Sweeping Day custom

1, sacrifice

Tomb-Sweeping Day is in Tomb-Sweeping Day in 2004-06. Ancestor belief and sacrificial culture are important factors in the formation of Tomb-Sweeping Day, and Tomb-Sweeping Day is an important carrier of inheriting belief and family ethics.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a kind of cultural expression and an important way to be grateful to ancestors and close to human feelings.

Step 2 go for an outing

Since ancient times, there has been a custom of Qingming outing, which means going to the suburbs for an outing in early spring. This seasonal folk activity, outing, has a long history in China, and its source is the ancient Spring Festival custom of farming sacrifice.

Step 3 plant trees

Many people don't know that Tomb-Sweeping Day actually has the custom of planting trees. Before and after the Qingming Festival in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the spring was bright and everything grew at this time. It is better to plant trees at this time.