Why is Tomb-Sweeping Day after April Fool's Day?

There is no special connection between the two festivals, but they are very close in time.

First, April Fool's Day.

April Fool's Day (April Fool's Day or April Fool's Day) is also called April Fool's Day and Humor Day. April Fool's Day falls on April 1 day of the Gregorian calendar, which is a popular folk festival in the west since19th century and has not been recognized as a legal holiday by any country. On this day, people cheat and play tricks on each other in various ways, and often at the end of the joke, they will expose and announce that the object of the joke is a "fool". The nature of jokes rarely contains substantial malice, but individual jokes, because they are too big and have large-scale repercussions, become rumors and urban legends, causing people's panic, so people generally avoid jokes like avoiding disasters.

2. It should be noted that on April Fool's Day, jokes can only be played until noon 12, which is a established strict rule. People who joke after midnight will immediately find themselves in trouble and call themselves bigger fools than the people they make fun of.

Second, Tomb-Sweeping Day.

1, also known as Youth Day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, the first 108 day after the winter solstice. It is a traditional festival in China, and it is also one of the most important sacrificial festivals. It's the day to worship ancestors and sweep graves [1]. The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day of the Han nationality in China began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Influenced by the Han culture, 24 ethnic minorities in China, such as Manchu, Hezhe, Zhuang, Oroqen, Dong, Tujia, Miao, Yao, Li, Shui, Jing and Qiang, also have the customs of Tomb-Sweeping Day. Grave sweeping, ancestor worship and outing are the basic themes.

2. Qingming was just the name of a solar term at first, and later became a festival to commemorate ancestors, which was related to the Cold Food Festival. Jin Wengong designated the second day of the Cold Food Festival as Tomb-Sweeping Day. In most parts of Shanxi, the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day was the Cold Food Festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day in Yushe County and other places celebrated the Cold Food Festival two days ago; Yuanqu County also pays attention to Tomb-Sweeping Day's Cold Food Festival the day before, and the light cold food the day before. Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi provides important conditions for the formation of Tomb-Sweeping Day customs in terms of time and weather, and this solar term is considered as one of the origins of Tomb-Sweeping Day.