The Qingming Festival is celebrated on April 4 or April 5 or April 6 every year.

Chingming is the fifth of the 24 solar terms. Qingming is known as one of the four major traditional Chinese festivals, along with the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. The Qingming Festival has one legal holiday.

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The Qingming Festival is also known as the Treading of the Green Festival, the Walking of the Green Festival, the March Festival, the Festival of the Ancestors, and so on, and is celebrated in the middle of the spring and the late spring. The Qingming Festival originates from the ancestor beliefs and spring festival rituals in the ancient times, with both natural and humanistic connotations, it is both a natural festival point and a traditional festival. Qingming Festival is a traditional major spring festival, sweeping the tombs and sacrifices, remembering ancestors, is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times, not only to promote filial piety and affection, awakening the family *** with the memory, but also to promote the cohesion of the family members and even the nation's cohesion and sense of identity.

The Qingming Festival combines natural festivals and human customs as a whole, is the unity of time, place and people, fully embodies the ancestors of the Chinese people in pursuit of "heaven, earth, people" harmony and unity, pay attention to conform to the time and place, follow the laws of nature. The Qingming Festival is rich in customs and traditions. Sweeping tombs and offering sacrifices to ancestors and going on excursions are the two main themes of the Qingming Festival, which have been passed down from ancient times in China and are still practiced to this day.

The Qingming Festival is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation, which is not only a solemn festival for sweeping tombs and paying homage to ancestors, but also a joyful festival for people to get close to nature, trekking and enjoying the fun of spring.

Douji B (or the sun's yellow meridian reaches 15 °) for the Qingming Festival, the intersection of the festival time in the calendar around April 5 around. This time of the year, angry and vigorous, the decline of yin, everything "spit out the old and new", the earth presents the image of spring and Jingming, it is the countryside trekking and spring line Qing tomb festival of good times. Qingming ancestor festival is very long, there are 10 days before 8 days after and 10 days before 10 days after the two say, this nearly 20 days are within the Qingming ancestor festival period.

The Qingming Festival, together with the Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, are known as the four major traditional festivals in China. In addition to China, some other countries and regions in the world also celebrate Qingming Festival, such as Vietnam, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, etc. On May 20, 2006, the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China declared the Qingming Festival to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list approved by the State Council (Category: Folklore; No.: X-2).

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