What are the characteristics of Tomb-Sweeping Day?

As soon as Qingming arrives, the temperature rises and the rainfall increases, which is a good time for spring ploughing and planting. Therefore, there are agricultural proverbs such as "sow beans before and after Qingming Festival" and "planting trees is not as good as Tomb-Sweeping Day", which shows that this solar term is closely related to farming.

In this season and climate, the whole country has entered the busy farming season, sowing early and middle rice, jointing wheat, flowering rape, strengthening field management, sowing corn and peanuts, etc.

Farming in Northeast China includes: rice seedling raising, sweet potato seedling raising, cotton, corn, sorghum sowing and wheat jointing.

Rainwater solar terms