Is the date in Tomb-Sweeping Day fixed?

The date in Tomb-Sweeping Day is not fixed, usually around April 5th every year. Tomb-Sweeping Day is the only day that is both a solar term and a festival, and the longitude 15 of the sun is the spirit of Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Tomb-Sweeping Day gas point: Dou refers to B; The solar calendar is15; Gregorian calendar April 4-6. The "Twenty-four solar terms" were originally determined by the direction of the top of the bucket handle of the Big Dipper. The bucket handle starts from the "female" position and then rotates clockwise. When bucket handle points to the "second position", it is the spirit of Qingming.

However, because the time of the earth's revolution is not necessarily 365 days, there may be a phenomenon that the date is not fixed in the division of solar terms, so the festival time is around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar. At that time, vitality flourished, yin qi declined, everything "went to the old and welcomed the new", and the earth showed a scene of spring, tranquility and peace, which was a good time to go for an outing in spring and sweep the graves for sacrifice.

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Cultural connotation:

Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most solemn festival for ancestor worship of the Chinese nation, and it belongs to a traditional cultural festival for ancestor worship. Tomb-Sweeping Day embodies the national spirit, inherits the sacrificial culture of Chinese civilization, and expresses people's moral feelings of respecting and honoring their ancestors. Grave-sweeping is "grave-sweeping sacrifice", which is called "respecting time" for ancestors. Spring and Autumn Festival has existed since ancient times.

Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, which originated from ancient ancestral beliefs and spring sacrifices. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. The custom of "grave-sweeping sacrifice" has a long history, and Qingming "grave-sweeping sacrifice" is the synthesis and sublimation of traditional spring customs.

Tomb-Sweeping Day not only has the theme of sweeping, remembering and remembering, but also has the theme of taking an outing and enjoying the body and mind. The traditional concept of "harmony between man and nature" has been vividly reflected in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Through historical development, Tomb-Sweeping Day has integrated the customs of the Cold Food Festival and Shangsi Festival in Tang and Song Dynasties, and integrated various folk customs, which has extremely rich cultural connotations.

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