What is the exact date in Tomb-Sweeping Day?

Tomb-Sweeping Day is between April 4th and April 6th every year.

1. Since Qingming is a solar term in the lunar calendar, it has its own laws to follow. Tomb-Sweeping Day is the fifth solar term in spring, at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. When the sun reaches longitude 15 degrees, the sky is clear.

2. During the Qingming Festival, everything is clear and everything is obvious, hence the name. Qingming is both a solar term and a festival.

3. As a solar term, Qingming is a good season for spring ploughing and spring planting; As a festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival for people to express their feelings and comfort themselves.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the 24 solar terms. Every year, Tomb-Sweeping Day falls on April 4th or 5th. These two days should be that day, depending on whether it is a leap year or a normal year. In leap year, February is 29 days, Tomb-Sweeping Day is April 5, normal year is 28 days, and Tomb-Sweeping Day is April 4.

The origin and legend of Tomb-Sweeping Day;

1. Many traditional festivals are related to ancient legends, and so is Tomb-Sweeping Day. The origin of this festival can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period.

2. According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Jin Dynasty, Jin Wengong was persecuted and exiled abroad. His loyal minister Jietui always accompanied him and suffered a lot. On one occasion, Jin Wengong fainted from hunger. Meson pushed off the thigh meat and made soup for the master, saving his life. Later, Jin Wengong returned to the court and rewarded many people who helped him, except meson tui.

3. meson tui doesn't care about this, but he lives in seclusion in Shan Ye with his mother. After he left, Jin Wengong recalled the past and felt ashamed of his loyal subjects, so he led his headquarters to find Jiezitui, but he didn't expect to find anything. Jin Wengong thought that the other party was resenting himself, so he asked Yamakaji to try to force the meson to push it out. I didn't expect the other party to be honest and upright, and would rather be burned to death than come out.

To Jin Wengong's regret, in order to commemorate him, he designated the day when Yamakaji was released as "Cold Food Festival" and ordered people to be vegetarian at this time of the year to commemorate Jietui. Later, this day gradually evolved into Tomb-Sweeping Day, a day when people miss their loyalty and ancestors.