Do you watch the solar calendar or the lunar calendar in Tomb-Sweeping Day every year? Tomb-Sweeping Day custom? What can Tomb-Sweeping Day do?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, but it is also a festival related to the 24 solar terms. Therefore, for the convenience of calculation, the Gregorian calendar algorithm is used to calculate Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Custom:

Go for an outing: Spring outing in Tomb-Sweeping Day is a long-standing folk custom in China. March is clear, spring returns to the earth, and nature is full of vitality everywhere, which is a good time to go for an outing. There is a folk saying called "the year of women's Qingming people". Because women in feudal society can't go out casually every day, it is a rare opportunity to go for an outing in Qingming, so women have more fun than men in Qingming. The wind of going for an outing in the Song Dynasty prevailed. The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival by Zhang Zeduan in the Northern Song Dynasty vividly depicts a lively scene of Kyoto people going for an outing in spring.

Grave sweeping: Grave sweeping is the most important activity in Tomb-Sweeping Day. It is called "respect for thinking time" for ancestors.

Wear willow: In some places, wicker is woven into reeds and worn on the head, meaning "Don't wear willow in Qingming Festival, and you will become a yellow dog in the afterlife". It is recorded in "Tomb-Sweeping Day at the Age of Yanjing": "When I arrived in Tomb-Sweeping Day, on March 3, Tang Gaozong pulled a wedge on the corner of Weihe River and presented a willow circle to his ministers, saying that wearing it could avoid silkworm poison."

Flying kites: Flying kites is a popular activity in Tomb-Sweeping Day. During their stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people will not only play it during the day, but even at night. At night, a string of colorful lanterns will be hung under the kite or on the kite line, which is called "magic lamp" like the twinkling stars at night. In ancient times, some places cut kites flying in the blue sky and let the breeze blow them to the ends of the earth. It is said that this can remove bad luck and bring good luck to yourself.