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Which of 24 solar terms is both a festival and a solar term?

Among the 24 solar terms, Qingming and Solstice are both solar terms and festivals. Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. Held at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day, an ancient ancestor belief and custom of Spring Festival, has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.

Winter solstice, also known as Winter Festival, Asian New Year Festival and Dragon Festival, has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is not only an important solar term among the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional folk festival in China. In ancient times, there was a custom of "eight festivals" to worship the gods and ancestors. The solstice in winter is considered as a big holiday in winter. There is a folk saying that the solstice in winter is as big as a year, so the ancients called it "off-year" or "off-year"

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24 solar terms:

Twenty-four solar terms refer to the special festivals in the calendar that express seasons, phenology, climate change and the establishment of "December architecture". They are beginning of spring, Rain, Awakening, Vernal Equinox, Qingming, Grain Rain, Changxia, Xiaoman, Mangzhong, Summer Solstice, Summer Solstice, beginning of autumn, Chu Shu, Bailu, Autumn Equinox, Cold Dew, First Frost, beginning of winter, Light Snow, Heavy Snow, Winter Solstice, Slight Cold and Great Cold.