What's Tomb-Sweeping Day's nickname?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the 24 solar terms. Among the 24 solar terms, Qingming is the only solar term that is both a solar term and a festival. In ancient China, the Qingming Festival was divided into three stages: "One stage was when tung flowers began to bloom; Second, the vole became a quail; I'll see you when I wait for the rainbow. " That is to say, at this time, the white paulownia blooms first, then the happy voles in the shade disappear and all return to the underground caves, and then the rainbow can be seen in the sky after the rain.

Generally speaking, it is on April 5 in the solar calendar, but its festival is very long. There are two kinds of sayings: eight days before the tenth day and ten days after the tenth day. These twenty days belong to Tomb-Sweeping Day. Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as March Festival in ancient times, has a history of more than 2,000 years.

March festival. "Twenty-four solar terms": "March Festival" ... At this time everything is clean and clear. "Qingming" used here is not a noun, but an adjective with Qi Jie. "Qi Jie" means that everything grows because of warmth and humidity, and "Qingming" means that the climate is clean and beautiful. Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called March Festival because it is in March of the summer calendar (the date is different, but it is usually on April 4th or 5th in the solar calendar).

Willow Festival It is recorded in the Local Records of Jin and Zhou Dynasties that Yun Tomb-Sweeping Day is a willow festival. According to legend, there is a custom of inserting willows to commemorate the meson push of Jin State in the Spring and Autumn Period, hence the name Willow Festival. Jie Zitui was one of the ministers who fled with Zhong Er, the son of Jin Dynasty. Many years later, Zhong Er returned to China to practice his ideas (the famous Jin Wengong in history) and rewarded the ministers who died. "Mesons don't talk about Lu, and Lu deserves it." When his mother took refuge in Mianshan, Zhong Er invited him out of the mountain, but he didn't want to be an official. Zhong Er ordered people to burn the mountain and forced him to publicize it. He couldn't catch the willow and both of them were burned to death. Later, the world called this day Tomb-Sweeping Day, but in fact there was no such solar term in the Spring and Autumn Period. It is a custom formed a long time ago to insert willow branches in Qingming as a souvenir. During Tomb-Sweeping Day, the willows turned green, and the letter of spring came out. Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called Willow Festival. Fu Cha Dunchong's "Yanjing Years" in Qing Dynasty says: "Qingming is a cold food, also known as the smoke-free festival." The smoking ban means that it is forbidden to cook cigarettes and only eat cold food cooked before without making a fire. It is said that it is also a custom to commemorate mesons. No, because the custom of cold food existed before meson was introduced. Duke Du of Sui Dynasty quoted Zhou Shu as the annotation of Chronicle of Jingchu, so it can't be said that "Qingming is a cold food".

Swing Festival, see Liu Ming Ruoyu's History of the Forbidden City in Ming Dynasty. Fu Cha Dunchong's Chronicle of Yanjing Years Old in Qing Dynasty said: "According to analysis, the customs of Liao country are the heaviest, from the inner dynasty to the literati, they come out to play every day." "A Dream of Red Mansions" describes the drinking rules, and there is a saying that "a woman is happy, and the clothes are thin." During the Qingming Festival, I put on my spring clothes and started to swing, hence the name of Swing Festival.

Hiking Festival. Lingnan spring is early, and the outing festival is also set early. The second day of February in the summer calendar is the outing festival, but in most areas, from the Central Plains, Jiangnan to North China, Qingming is an outing festival. In these places, the dates of spring letters have successively. In northern China, spring will start in the middle and late April of the solar calendar, but the outing festival is also scheduled for Qingming. According to the solar calendar, the outing festival is held from April 4th to 6th every year, which is a season of bright spring and lush vegetation, and it is also a good time for people to have a spring outing (called outing in ancient times). Therefore, the ancients had the custom of clearing the sky and descending to the earth and carrying out a series of sports activities.

Cold food festival, also known as cooked food festival, no smoking festival and cold food festival. Its date is from the winter solstice 105, that is to say, it is only one or two days away from Qingming. The main custom of this festival is to ban fire, cook without fire, and only eat prepared cooked food and cold food, hence the name. Because there are grave-sweeping, hiking, cockfighting, swinging, carpets, tug of war and so on. So it is also called swing festival, tug-of-war festival and so on.

Shangsi Festival, also known as Daughter's Day, was called Shangsi in early March in ancient times, also known as Shisan. After the Three Kingdoms Wei Dynasty, this festival was fixed on the third day of March and has been inherited ever since.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, Ghost Festival, Ghost Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival on July 15 and Xia Yuan Festival on July 10/5 are all related to offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods. Qingming's nickname comes from meteorology, phenology and folk customs, which can be described as both refined and popular. There are other nicknames among the people, such as outing festival, ghost festival, ghost festival, death festival, wisdom festival, death festival and grave-sweeping festival.