It is both a festival and a solar term, but which one in 24 solar terms is both a festival and a solar term?

Among the 24 solar terms, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Solstice are both solar terms and traditional festivals.

2. Tomb-Sweeping Day is both a solar term and a festival with a long history, and the formation of festival customs is closely related to the characteristics of solar terms. The origin of the ritual custom of sweeping graves and offering sacrifices to ancestors comes down in one continuous line with the humanistic and natural cultural contents such as faith, sacrifice, calendar and solar terms. The Qingming Festival is the best time to celebrate the Spring Festival, when spring returns to the earth, yin and yang change, and the old is full of vitality and everything is clean. Therefore, the traditional customs of the Spring Festival are gradually formed during the Qingming Festival.

3. The winter solstice, commonly known as "Winter Festival", "Dragon Festival" and "Asian New Year", is an important solar term in the China lunar calendar and a major traditional festival of the Chinese nation. As early as more than 2,500 years ago in the Spring and Autumn Period, China had observed the sun with the earth and determined the winter solstice, which was the earliest of the 24 solar terms.