What festival is Tomb-Sweeping Day called?

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the Walking Festival, falls between April 4th and 6th every year. The ancients had the custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day going for an outing and carrying out a series of sports activities. Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called ancestor worship festival, which means ancestor worship festival. At the same time, Tomb-Sweeping Day is also another name for Tomb-Sweeping Day. The festival is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, which has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.

Natural solar terms:

Tomb-Sweeping Day, with both natural and humanistic connotations, is not only one of the "24 solar terms", but also a traditional festival for ancestor worship. "Twenty-four solar terms" is the product of ancient farming civilization, which is related to the time of gossip and has a long history. "Twenty-four solar terms" not only play a guiding role in agricultural production, but also affect the basic necessities of life and even cultural concepts of ancient people.

In the early days of observing images and timing, bucket handle made a clockwise rotation according to the movement of stars, which was called one year old. Tian Yuan began in Yin, such as "Xun in Huainan", which says: "Emperor, transport troops to fight, move to his place once a month, the first month refers to Yin, December is ugly, turn around at the age of one, and start all over again". In traditional culture, the yin position is the "root position" of the acquired gossip, the position at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, representing the end and beginning. "Yi Shuo Gua Zhuan": "The root is also a divination in the northeast, and everything has a beginning and an end.

"Therefore, the bucket handle of the Big Dipper starts from the" Yin Jian "moon pointing to the northeast, and then rotates clockwise, and goes on and on; At the end of December, it refers to the ugly face, and in the first month, it returns to the cloudy position and starts again. Beidou turns round, bucket handle returns to Yin, and Ganyuan stays for the Spring Festival. When bucket handle points to the "B" position due east and south, it is clear and clear. Tomb-Sweeping Day is full of air, everything is clean, full of vitality, and the temperature rises. The earth presents the image of spring and tranquility, which is a good time for spring outing and grave sweeping in the suburbs.