About the history of Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the Walking Festival, is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, the first 108 day from winter to the future.

It is a traditional festival in China, and it is also one of the most important festivals to worship ancestors and sweep graves.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, which started in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years.

Qingming was just the name of a solar term at first, and later became a festival to commemorate ancestors, which was related to the Cold Food Festival.

Jin Wengong designated the second day of the Cold Food Festival as Tomb-Sweeping Day.

In most parts of Shanxi, the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day was the Cold Food Festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day in Yushe County and other places celebrated the Cold Food Festival two days ago; Yuanqu County also pays attention to Tomb-Sweeping Day's Cold Food Festival the day before, and the light cold food the day before.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the important "eight festivals a year" in China. Generally, it is around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar, and the festival is very long. There are two sayings: 8 days before 10 and 10 days before 10, and these 20 days belong to Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Tomb-Sweeping Day originally referred to Tomb-Sweeping Day, and April 5, 1935 was designated as a national holiday, 15 days after the vernal equinox, also known as the National Tomb Sweeping Festival.

"Almanac": "On the fifteenth day after the vernal equinox, the bucket refers to Ding, which is used for Qingming. When everything is clean and bright, when it is covered, everything is clean and bright, hence the name.

"As soon as the Qingming Festival arrives, the temperature rises, which is a good time for spring ploughing, so there is a saying that' before and after the Qingming Festival, we planted melons and beans'.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China.

On May 20, 2006, with the approval of the State Council, Tomb-Sweeping Day declared by the Ministry of Culture of China was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list (category: folk customs; No.: X-2).

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