The specific time of Tomb-Sweeping Day in 2023: Wednesday, April 5, Gregorian calendar, February 15 of the lunar calendar. Tomb-Sweeping Day is not fixed every year. Tomb-Sweeping Day is usually between April 4th and April 6th, but the most common dates are April 4th and April 5th, with April 5th being the most common in Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Free time of Tomb-Sweeping Day Expressway in 2023: from 0: 00 to 24: 00 on April 5, 2023. Because the Qingming holiday in 2023 is only 1 day, the free time of high-speed is also 1 day.
traditional custom
1, sacrifice to sweep the grave
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. Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping, which means "grave-sweeping sacrifice", is a "respect for time and thought" for ancestors. Sacrificing ancestors is a way of remembering ancestors, and its custom has a long history.
Step 2 insert willow
On this day, in every household in the Yellow River Basin, Huaihe River Basin and Yangtze River Basin, Tomb-Sweeping Day planted willows at the door, hung willows under the eaves, spread willows on women's heads, put willows on men's heads, put willows on children's heads, and hung paper money on graves. Hu Pu 'an 19-year-old Shouchun (now Shouxian County, Anhui Province) remembers that on Qingming Day, new willows were planted at home, which meant that the epidemic ghosts could be eliminated.