The aliases of Qingming Festival are Treading Green Festival, Hsing Qing Festival, March Festival, Ancestor Worship Festival, Cold Food Festival, Willow Festival, and Autumn Swing Festival, etc.

The Qingming Festival is held in the middle of spring and late spring.

The Qingming Festival takes place at the crossroads of mid-spring and late spring. In terms of festivals, Qingming is certainly a "festival", but it is also a major holiday. In the twenty-four seasons, both is the festival and is the only festival Qingming. Because Qingming is both "two festivals", it has both natural colors and humanistic connotations, reflecting changes in weather and climate, but also with distinctive traditional cultural characteristics.

The characteristics of the Qingming Festival

Qingming Festival climate characteristics: dry and windy in the north, to prevent forest fires, the north of China, the temperature rises very quickly, precipitation is scarce, dry and windy, is the time of year more dusty weather. Many areas in the north in April the average temperature have reached 10 ℃ ~ 15 ℃. For the Qingming period in early to mid-April, it is not surprising that the temperature sometimes climbs significantly in these areas. Mountain forests and fields of grass sprouting, coinciding with the spring tour, tomb sweeping, tree planting season, the prevention of forest fires is very important.