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What season does the day of Qingming Festival belong to

The Qingming Festival is the Qingming Festival, which belongs to the spring season.

Of the twenty-four festivals, the only one that is both a festival and a holiday is Qingming (the winter solstice was also a holiday in history, but it is no longer celebrated in most places now).

The name of the Qingming Festival is related to the characteristics of weather and weather conditions at this time. The Western Han Dynasty's "Huainanzi - Tianwenxun" said, "Fifteen days after the vernal equinox, the bucket points to B, then the Qingming wind arrives." "Qingming wind" means fresh and clean wind. The "Hundred Questions on the Time of the Year" says, "Everything grows at this time, all clean and clear. Therefore, it is called Qingming." Although the festival of Qingming was only formed in the Tang Dynasty, the Qingming Festival as a sign of the time has long been recognized by the ancients, the Han Dynasty has been clearly recorded.

The twenty-four solar terms are the climatic patterns summarized by ancient Chinese astronomers and people in their lives and production practices, reflecting more appropriately the changes in temperature, physical conditions, rainfall and other aspects of the year, and providing indispensable guidance for people to arrange farming, sericulture, and other activities according to the time of the year. To the Qingming, warming temperatures, rainfall increased, is the spring plowing and planting of a good time. So Qingming is an important festival for ancient agricultural production. Farmers' proverbs said, "Before and after Qingming, planting melons and beans" and "Planting trees and forests is not more important than Qingming", which is exactly what they said. Cui Shi (崔寔) of the Eastern Han Dynasty recorded in "The Four People's Monthly Orders" that: "At the Qingming Festival, the silkworm concubines will be ordered to rule the silkworm rooms ------", which means that this is the time to start preparing for raising silkworms. The "Qingming Festival" is still a festival, not a holiday.