According to the query results of perpetual calendar, the year of 20 18 is April 5, 20 18 in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and February 20th in the lunar calendar.
There are many traditional festivals in China, some of which have gradually faded out of people's sight with the passage of time, but many festivals still greatly affect our lives. Tomb-Sweeping Day is an important traditional festival in China, and it is one of the eight important festivals, usually on April 5 of the Gregorian calendar; However, the festival is very long, and there are two kinds of sayings: eight days before ten days and ten days after ten days. These nearly twenty days are all festivals in Tomb-Sweeping Day. As the fifth solar term in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar, Qingming represents the official start of the Ji Chun season.
The traditional custom in the Qingming Festival is that families sweep graves, pay homage to their ancestors, and sweep graves in front of graves. This custom originated very early in China. As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, great attention was paid to tombs. By the time of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial edict made cold food sweeping the grave as one of the five rites at that time, so sweeping the grave became an important social custom when Tomb-Sweeping Day came.
In addition, in the spring when it is still cold, it is traditionally forbidden to eat cold food by fire, for fear that some old and weak women and children can't stand the cold, and in order to prevent cold food and cold food from hurting their health, with the development of time, the people gradually agreed to go for an outing, go on an outing, swing, play football, play polo, insert willows, tug of war, fight chicken and other outdoor activities during the Tomb-Sweeping Day period, so that everyone can come out to bask in the sun, exercise their bones and muscles and increase their resistance.
In fact, Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only a festival to remember ancestors, but also has other contents. During the Qingming Festival, one is to visit graves to worship ancestors, and the other is to go hiking. It can be seen that in addition to worshipping ancestors and sweeping graves, Tomb-Sweeping Day also has various outdoor fitness activities, which makes this festival not only have sentimental feelings of pursuing the future with caution, but also blend the atmosphere of enjoying spring with joy; There are both where will you go's sad and sour tears, and there are fresh and bright vivid scenes everywhere. It's really a very special festival.