Chingming in 2023 is April 5th.

The 2023 Qingming Festival is Wednesday, April 5, 2023 on the solar calendar, the fifteenth day of the second leap month of the lunar calendar. Qingming Festival is a traditional major spring festival and a festival for people to get close to nature, trekking and enjoying spring.

The Qingming Festival originated from the ancient times of ancestral beliefs and spring festival rituals, with the development of the times continue to evolve, and then gradually fused with the cold food festival and the customs of the festival. In the Song and Yuan Dynasties to form an ancestor as the center of the tomb, the cold food ban on fire, cold food custom and on the outing and other customary activities such as the fusion of stereotypes of a festival.

Traditional customs of the Qingming Festival

1, trekking excursions

Since ancient times there has been the custom of trekking on the Qingming Festival, the ancient called spring, spring, spring, and so on. At the time of the Qingming Festival, spring returns to the earth. The nature is full of vigor, and it is also the time when everything is sprouting, which is a great time for excursions.

2, tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship

Tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship, the center of the Qingming Festival customs, as early as before the pre-Qin Dynasty. Qingming festival before and after the Qingming Festival, there are differences in different parts of the world. Common practices: one is to refurbish the graves, and the other is to hang and burn paper money and offer sacrifices.

3, willow

It is said that the custom of willow, in honor of the ancestor of agriculture, Shennong.