Chingming Festival is not a fixed date.

The Qingming Festival is a very important festival. The date of Qingming Festival is not fixed, it is usually around April 5th every year. The Qingming Festival usually falls around April 5th on the Gregorian calendar, the 15th day after the vernal equinox.

The lunar calendar for the Qingming Festival is not fixed, because against the Gregorian calendar will find that the date is different every year, its calendar is not a complete 365 days, there will be a few hours of error, and the Qingming belongs to the festival, according to the solar calendar to see, depending on the Earth's orbit around the sun to determine to what angle, for example, to arrive at the yellow meridian of 15 ° when it is Qingming. It is also important to look at the festival as a specific point in time, at a different minute and second each year.

Customs of the Qingming Festival

1, trekking

During the Qingming period, when spring returns to the earth and the natural world is full of vibrant scenes, it is a good time for excursions. Our people have long been in the habit of going on Qingming. Legend has it that there was a clear event in the early days. The intrinsic significance of Qingming is to accommodate the seasonal festivities. In the spring of March, anger begins to flourish and everything is born. People get out of their homes and into the wilderness, actively catering to the time and promoting the body's circulation through the body. Health is good.

2, tomb sweeping

In Chinese history, cold food and fire ban, to pay homage to ancestors, Qingming Festival tomb sweeping ancestors became customary practices. In today's society, people still have the custom of sweeping graves around the Ching Ming Festival to honor their ancestors: shoveling weeds, offering sacrifices, praying on the graves, burning paper money, or simply placing a bouquet of flowers in the memory of a fixed ancestor.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia - Qingming Festival for the above