Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, why is it not on the lunar calendar but on the solar calendar?

Let's take a look at the date of Qingming Festival, in 2018 the date of Qingming Festival is April 4th, but the lunar calendar is March 19th, in 2016 the Qingming Festival is April 4th, the lunar calendar is March 27th. So if you say that Qingming Festival is counted in the solar calendar, you are actually OK with this statement. Most of the Qingming Festival's lunar calendar dates are different every year, and the Qingming Festival is counted according to the date when the sun orbits to a certain position.

Don't forget, although Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in China, Qingming Festival itself is also a festival, which belongs to the 24 solar terms inside a festival, so it has a great relationship with the operation of the sun. Since ancient times, China has been using the lunar calendar, which is what we usually refer to as the lunar calendar, and the lunar calendar is mainly based on the moon's orbiting law to calculate time. We usually say that the full moon is 15 or 16, which is based on the moon's orbit. In fact, China also uses the solar calendar, which is based on the operation of the sun to divide time.

The most famous of these is the 24 solar terms, which we now often refer to as the 24 solar terms, so he divides the year into 24 time periods. Westerners mainly use the solar calendar, although there are some gaps with us, but basically match. So the 24 solar terms are still mainly calculated according to the Gregorian calendar, that is, the solar calendar, but because the sun's orbit time will be different every year, so the time of the 24 solar terms will sometimes have some deviation, so that is the time of the year is not necessarily fixed.

So people will question: why China's other traditional festivals are calculated using the lunar calendar, which is often referred to as the lunar calendar, while the Qingming Festival is calculated using the solar calendar. This actually happens to be coincidental, Qingming Festival happens to be a festival, the festival are calculated using the solar calendar, so there will be such an interesting thing