20 18 What's the date in Tomb-Sweeping Day?
According to the query results of the perpetual calendar, April 5th of 20 18 is in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and February 20th of the lunar calendar.
There are many traditional festivals in China, some of which have gradually faded out of people's sight with the passage of time, but many festivals still affect our lives to a great extent. Tomb-Sweeping Day is an important traditional festival in China and one of the eight important festivals, which usually falls on April 5 of the Gregorian calendar. However, the festival is very long, and there are two sayings: eight days before ten days and ten days after ten days. It has been Tomb-Sweeping Day for nearly twenty days. As the fifth solar term in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar, Qingming represents the official start of the Ji Chun season.
The traditional custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day is that every family sweeps graves, worships their ancestors, and sweeps graves in front of graves. This custom originated in China a long time ago. As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, people attached great importance to tombs. In the Xuanzong period of Tang Dynasty, the imperial edict listed cold food sweeping the grave as one of the five rituals at that time, so sweeping the grave became an important social custom when Tomb-Sweeping Day arrived.
In addition, in the spring when the weather is still cold, it is traditionally forbidden to make a fire to eat cold food, so as not to make some elderly and frail women and children unable to stand the cold. Moreover, in order to prevent cold food and cold food from harming their health, with the development of time, people gradually agree to go for an outing, go for an outing, swing, play football, play polo, insert willows, tug of war, and engage in outdoor activities such as chicken fighting during Tomb-Sweeping Day, so that everyone can come out to bask in the sun, exercise their muscles and increase their number.
In fact, Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only a festival to remember ancestors, but also has other contents. During my stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, one went to visit the grave to worship my ancestors, and the other went hiking. It can be seen that in addition to worshipping ancestors and sweeping graves, Tomb-Sweeping Day also has various outdoor fitness activities, which makes this festival not only have the sentimental feelings of being cautious from beginning to end, but also incorporate the atmosphere of enjoying spring with joy; There are both sad tears of "Where are you going?" and vivid scenes everywhere. This is really a very special festival.