How many days is Qingming Festival?

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, according to the solar calendar, between April 4th and 6th every year, it is the season of beautiful spring and lush vegetation, and it is also a good time for people to have a spring outing (called outing in ancient times), so the ancients had the custom of going for an outing in Qingming and carrying out a series of sports activities. Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the March Festival in ancient times, has a history of more than 2,000 years.

As a festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day is different from pure solar terms. Solar terms are symbols of phenological changes and seasonal order in China, while festivals contain certain customs and activities, which have certain commemorative significance. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also the most important festival to worship ancestors and sweep graves.

The meaning of solar terms

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.

From the Han Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty, the solar terms were divided by the "average time method", and the period from winter solstice to winter solstice of the following year was divided into 24 segments (each segment was 15 days), with winter solstice as the starting point of the "24 solar terms"; Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi is counted from the winter, that is, the first 105 day after winter. The current "twenty-four solar terms" come from the "fixed air method" concluded more than 300 years ago (used since 1645), which is determined according to the position of the sun on the ecliptic. When the solar calendar reaches 15, it is the node of Tomb-Sweeping Day.