Will April Fool's Day conflict with China's traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day this year?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is April 5th, not April 1 day. Where is the conflict?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is now a national grave-sweeping festival. According to the solar calendar, it is about April 5, and according to the lunar calendar, it is the first half of March. The ancients divided a year into 24 solar terms and used this calendar to sow and harvest. Qingming is one of the twenty-four solar terms, fifteen days after the vernal equinox. According to the saying of "always asking questions": "Everything is long, clean and bright at this time. So it is called Qingming. " Therefore, "Tomb-Sweeping Day" was originally a solar term. Later, the custom of forbidding cold food and fire and beating graves was added, and Tomb-Sweeping Day was formed.

Originally, the Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day were two different festivals. In the Tang Dynasty, the day of sweeping graves was designated as the Cold Food Festival. The day of the Cold Food Festival is the first day from winter to the future 105, around Qingming, so Qingming and the Cold Food Festival are combined!

The custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors in front of graves originated in China very early. As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, people attached great importance to tombs. Mencius' article about Qi people in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and the Warring States Period also mentioned a ridiculed Qi person, who often went to the tomb of Dongguo to beg and offer sacrifices to the tomb. However, slapping tombs was very popular during the Warring States period. When he arrived in Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, Xia Shao designated the cold food tomb as one of the "five rites" at that time. Therefore, whenever Tomb-Sweeping Day comes, "the fields and roads are full of scholars and women, and the servants of soap merchants are beggars, and they all get their parents' graves." (Liu Zongyuan's Book with Xu Jingzhao) Grave sweeping has become an important social custom.

In the cold winter, it is forbidden to make a fire to eat cold food, for fear that some old, weak women and children can't stand the cold. In order to prevent cold food and cold food from harming their health, outdoor activities such as hiking, outing, swinging, playing football, playing polo, inserting willows, tug of war, fighting cocks, etc. They are all set up to let everyone come out to bask in the sun, exercise their bones and muscles and increase their resistance. Therefore, in addition to ancestor worship and grave-sweeping, there are various outdoor fitness activities in Tomb-Sweeping Day, which make this festival not only have emotional appeal, but also have a joyful atmosphere of spring outing. There are both sad and sour tears in Where Are You Going, and vivid and bright scenes everywhere. This is really a very special festival.

It's Lan Festival, not Meng Lan Festival. Every year, the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is called "Orchid Festival", also known as "Mid-Autumn Festival". In some places, it is also called "Ghost Festival" and "Stone Drum". The Orchid Sutra, a Buddhist scripture, aims to cultivate filial piety and inspire Buddhist disciples. It is in line with the popular belief in China that seeking before going far and mourning is greater than dying, so it is becoming more and more popular. The Koran says, "He who has eyes and a lotus monk has great strength. His mother fell into the hungry ghost road, and the food mouth turned into flames. Hunger was too bitter. Unable to save his mother, Mu Lian asked the Buddha for advice. In order to talk about the Lanpen Sutra, she taught July 15th to make a Lanpen to save her mother. " Manglietia is the first disciple of Buddhist avatar.

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