What's the date in Tomb-Sweeping Day?
This is the fifth solar term in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Together with Tomb-Sweeping Day, Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, it is called the four traditional festivals in China. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a legal holiday.
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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. Tomb-Sweeping Day is an important traditional Spring Festival. It is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times to sweep graves to worship ancestors. It is not only conducive to promoting filial piety and family memory, but also conducive to promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation.
Tomb-Sweeping Day combines natural solar terms with humanistic customs, which is a combination of good weather, favorable geographical position and human harmony. It fully embodies the thought of "harmony between man and nature" of the ancestors of the Chinese nation, and pays attention to conforming to the weather, geographical location and human harmony and following the laws of nature. Tomb-Sweeping Day is rich in festivals and customs. Grave-sweeping and outing are two major themes of rituals and customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day. These two traditional themes have been handed down in China since ancient times.
Tomb-Sweeping Day is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation. It is not only a solemn festival to pay homage to ancestors, but also a happy festival for people to get close to nature and have an outing.
Douban (or Sunlight Meridian 15) is Tomb-Sweeping Day gas, and the node time is around April 5 of Gregorian calendar. At this time, vitality is booming, Yin Qi is declining, everything is "going to the old and welcoming the new", and the earth presents a beautiful scene of spring, which is a good time to go for an outing in spring and sweep graves in the suburbs. Tomb-Sweeping Day, who worships his ancestors, is very long. There are two statements: before 8 10, after 10 before 10. These nearly twenty days belong to Tomb-Sweeping Day who worships his ancestors.
Together with Tomb-Sweeping Day, Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, it is called the four traditional festivals in China. Besides China, some countries and regions in the world also have Tomb-Sweeping Day, such as Viet Nam, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore. On May 20, 2006, Tomb-Sweeping Day declared by People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Ministry of Culture was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage (category: folk customs; No.: _-2).