Confusion: What is the season of Qingming?

The aliases of Qingming Festival are Treading Green Festival, Ghost Festival and Cold Food Festival. China's traditional Qingming Festival began around the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Qingming is a very important festival in the beginning, once Qingming arrives, the temperature rises, it is a great time for spring plowing and planting, so after Qingming farmers are slow to crops. This shows that Qingming is in the spring of spring flowers.

Spring. After the vernal equinox in the 24 solar terms is Qingming (the 17th of February in the lunar calendar is the vernal equinox, and the 3rd of March is Qingming). The vernal equinox is halfway through spring, so Qingming is in spring.

Qingming is one of the 24 solar terms in China. Because the 24 solar terms reflect the changes in temperature, rainfall, and climate throughout the year more objectively, ancient working people used them to arrange agricultural activities. Huainanzi (淮南子). Tianwenxun" cloud: "fifteen days after the equinox, the bucket refers to the b, then the wind of Qingming to."

According to the statement of "the time of the year": "Everything grows at this time, are clean and clear. Therefore, it is called Qingming." Qingming, the temperature rises, rainfall increases, it is a good time for spring plowing and planting. Therefore, there are "before and after the Qingming, point melon planting beans", "planting trees, not more than the Qingming" proverbs. It can be seen that this festival has a close relationship with agricultural production.

Qingming Festival, also known as the festival, according to the solar calendar, it is between April 4 and 6 every year, it is the time of spring bright and beautiful grass and trees spit green, it is also the people of spring tour (ancient called trekking) a good time, so the ancients have Qingming trekking, and to carry out a series of sports activities of the custom.

However, as a festival, Qingming is different from a pure festival. The festival is a sign of the change of climate and the order of seasons in China, while the festival contains certain customary activities and some kind of commemorative significance.

Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in China, and also the most important festival of sacrifice, is the day of ancestor worship and tomb-sweeping. Tomb-sweeping is commonly known as visiting the grave, an activity to honor the dead. Most of the Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities sweep their tombs on Qingming Festival.

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