Does Qingming Festival count as a traditional holiday

The Qingming Festival counts as a traditional festival. Qingming Festival is not only a traditional festival in China, but also one of the four traditional Chinese festivals. The Qingming Festival has a long history, dating back to the ancient times of ancestral beliefs and spring festival rituals.

Is Qingming Festival a traditional holiday

Located in the period between mid-spring and late spring, Qingming Festival is not only a traditional holiday, but also one of the twenty-four solar terms. Qingming Festival, also called Treading Green Festival, Hsing Qing Festival, March Festival, Ancestor Festival. Its predecessor is mainly the Cold Food Festival that originated in the Spring and Autumn Period.

The Qingming Festival mainly combines the customs of the Cold Food Festival and the Shangsi Festival, thus forming the two main festival traditions of the Qingming Festival, one is to honor ancestors, and the other is to go on trekking excursions and get close to nature.

One of these traditions, honoring ancestors, evolved into today's tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship. Tomb-sweeping on the Qingming Festival is an almost nationwide holiday custom, which is mainly influenced by traditional Chinese culture and can promote family cohesion and a sense of belonging.

And the custom of trekking mainly comes from the Shangsi Festival. The festival, commonly known as the third of March, the main purification of the shore bath, rituals and banquets, goblets, countryside tour of spring and other customs. But in the Song Dynasty, the festival gradually disappeared, and the Qingming Festival popularized.

Though the Qingming Festival has a long history of origin, it really became popular after the Tang and Song dynasties. During the Tang Dynasty, most officials would take leave to go back to their hometowns to sweep their graves, so to solve the problem, the Tang court issued a series of regulations.

For example, in 736 A.D., four days of vacation were given for Qingming and Chingming Festival one***; in 777 A.D., five days of vacation were given for Chingming Festival plus Chingming Festival one***; and in 790 A.D., the holiday was increased to seven days. From this, we can know that the Qingming Festival was emphasized in the Tang Dynasty.