What is a festival and a holiday at the same time

Of the twenty-four solar terms, the two that are both festivals and traditional holidays are Qingming and the winter solstice.

1, Qingming Festival

Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, the line Qing Festival, March Festival, Festival of Ancestors, and so on, the festival in the middle of spring and the late spring of the intersection. Qingming Festival originated from the ancient times of ancestor beliefs and spring festival rituals, is the Chinese nation's most grand and grand ancestor festival.

The Qingming Festival has both natural and humanistic connotations, and is both a natural festival and a traditional festival. Sweeping tombs and offering sacrifices to ancestors, as well as trekking and picnicking, are the two main themes of the Qingming Festival, which have been inherited from ancient times in China and continue to be celebrated to this day.

2, the winter solstice

The winter solstice is commonly known as the "Winter Festival", "long solstice festival", "YaYu" and so on. In ancient times, the folk have "winter solstice is as big as the year". The winter solstice customs vary from region to region and there are differences in the content or details of the customs.

In the southern region of China, there are winter solstice ancestor worship, the custom of feasting. In northern China, it is customary to eat dumplings on the winter solstice every year. The festival takes place between December 22 or 23 on the solar calendar each year.

Seasonal Culture:

The twenty-four seasons scientifically reveal the laws of astronomical and meteorological changes, and it realizes an ingenious combination of astronomy, natural rhythms and folklore, giving rise to a large number of yearly seasonal cultures related to them, which have become an important part of the traditional culture of the Chinese nation.

In order to more accurately express the characteristics of the seasonal order, the ancients divided the festivals into four groups, namely, the "minutes", the "arrivals", the "beginnings", and the "endings", according to the climate and the weather. The "points" are the spring and fall equinoxes, known as the "two points" in ancient times.

"To" is the summer solstice and the winter solstice, anciently known as the "two solstices"; "Kai" is the beginning of spring and the beginning of summer, and "Closed "is the first fall and winter. Spring, summer, fall, winter, collectively known as the "four", these add up to **** for the "eight sections".

Folk called "four times eight sections" or "eight sections of the year". In the long agrarian society, the twenty-four seasons have played an important role in guiding agricultural activities, and have rich cultural connotations.