What is the Qingming Festival also called?

The Qingming Festival is also known as the Treading Green Festival, which is held between April 4 and 6 every year. Ancient people had the custom of trekking on the Qingming Festival and carrying out a series of sports activities. The Qingming Festival is also called Ancestor Festival, which refers to the festival of ancestor worship, while the Hsing Ching Festival is an alternative name for the Ching Ming Festival, which falls at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring, and has both natural and humanistic connotations, being both a natural festival point as well as a traditional festival.

Natural festivals:

The Qingming Festival, with both natural and humanistic connotations, is one of the "twenty-four solar terms" as well as a traditional festival of ancestor worship." The "24 Solar Terms" is a product of the ancient farming civilization, which is linked to the dry time and gossip, and has a long history of origin. The 24 solar terms not only played a guiding role in agricultural production, but also influenced ancient people's clothing, food, housing and transportation, and even cultural concepts.

In the early days of observing the time, the year was set according to the rotation of the stars, the handle of the bucket rotated clockwise once, which was called the first year (Regent). Tianwei Jianyuan, from the beginning of the Yin, such as the "Huainanzi - astronomy training" recorded: "Emperor Zhang four-dimensional, transported by the bucket, the month of migration of an hour, and then return to its, the first month refers to the Yin, December refers to the ugly, a year and turn, and the end of the beginning". In traditional culture, the c position is the eight trigrams of the "Burgundy", is the end of the year, the first year of the end of the orientation, on behalf of the end and the beginning, "Yi - Gua Chuan": "Burgundy, the northeast of the trigrams are also the end of all things into the beginning of the end and into the beginning of the beginning of the same.

"Therefore, the Big Dipper's handle from pointing to the east of the northern position of the "Jian Yin" of the month for the start, and then clockwise rotation, the cycle repeats itself; the end of December refers to the ugly side of the first month of the first month and return to the c position, the end and the beginning. The Big Dipper cycle of rotation, the handle back to the c, Qianyuan start luck, back to the new spring. When the handle of the Big Dipper is pointing to the south-east of the "B" position for the Qingming Festival. Qingming this festival, everything is clean and Qi, angry and vigorous, spit out the old and the new, the temperature rises, the earth presents the image of spring and Jingming, it is the countryside trekking and spring line Qing tomb festival good time.