What festivals are there in April?
First, April Fool's Day.
April Fool's Day (April Fool's Day or April Fool's Day) is also called April Fool's Day, Humor Day and April Fool's Day. This festival is in April of Gregorian calendar 1 year, which is a popular folk festival in the west since19th century, and has not been recognized as a legal festival by any country. On this day, people cheat and play tricks on each other in various ways, and often at the end of the joke, they will expose and announce that the object of the joke is a "fool". The nature of jokes rarely contains substantial malice, but individual jokes are too big to cause people's panic and have a large-scale response, which is derived from (media) rumors and urban legends, so people generally avoid making jokes about disasters.
Second, Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. It was celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day originated from the ancestral belief and the custom of worshipping spring in ancient times, which has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival. Grave-sweeping and outing are the two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day etiquette and customs, and these two traditional themes have been passed down from ancient times to the present in China.
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, have an outing and enjoy the fun of spring. Douzhi B (or solar calendar reaches 15) is Tomb-Sweeping Day gas, and the node time is around April 5 of Gregorian calendar. At this time, the vitality is booming, the yin is declining, everything is "going to the old and welcoming the new", and the earth presents a scene full of spring, which is a good time to go for a walk in the spring and sweep the graves. Tomb-Sweeping Day, who worships his ancestors, is very long. There are two statements: 8 days before 10 and 10 days before 10. These nearly 20 days belong to Tomb-Sweeping Day who worships his ancestors.
Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional major Spring Festival. It is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times to sweep graves and remember our ancestors. It is not only conducive to promoting filial piety, awakening family memories, but also conducive to promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation. Tomb-Sweeping Day's integration of natural solar terms and humanistic customs is a combination of humanistic and natural conditions, which fully embodies the Chinese ancestors' pursuit of harmony between heaven, earth and people, pays attention to conforming to the right time, place and people, and follows the laws of nature.
Tomb-Sweeping Day, Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also 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.: X-2).