Qingming, one of the 24 solar terms, is the fifth solar term in spring. Douzhi B, when the sun reaches 15 ° of Yellow Meridian, it is Qingming. During the Tomb Sweeping Day, when the air is clear and the scenery is bright, everything is visible, so it is named. Qingming Festival is a solar term reflecting the phenological changes in nature. In this season, the sun is shining, plants are sprouting, and flowers are blooming. The nature presents a vibrant scene. In the southern part of China, the scene was clear and bright; In the north, the snow began to break, the temperature rose, and the spring was melting.
Tomb Sweeping Day Schedule in Recent Years
| particular year |
date |
lunar calendar |
the Chinese zodiac |
week |
| two thousand and twenty-five |
2025-04-04 |
March 7th, Yisi |
snake |
Friday |
| two thousand and twenty-six |
2026-04-05 |
February 18th, the Year of the Third Five Year Plan |
horse |
Sunday |
| two thousand and twenty-seven |
2027-04-05 |
February 29, Ding Weinian |
sheep |
Monday |
| two thousand and twenty-eight |
2028-04-04 |
The 10th day of March in the year of Wushen |
monkey |
Tuesday |
| two thousand and twenty-nine |
2029-04-04 |
February 21, 2016 |
chicken |
Wednesday |
Qingming Festival is both a solar term and a festival. Qingming Solar Term provides important conditions for the formation of Qingming Festival customs in terms of time and weather phenology. The Qingming solar term, related to the phenology of the year, is often used to guide farming, meaning a clear sky and a suitable time for spring plowing; The Tomb Sweeping Day is a day for people to visit the tomb and worship their ancestors, and to be cautious in pursuing the future; Because the two blend, Qingming has both natural and humanistic connotations. The main customs of the Tomb Sweeping Festival include: tomb sweeping, outing, swing playing, kite flying, tree planting, willow planting, etc.
Song of the Twenty four Solar Terms
The spring rain startles the clear valley sky in spring. The summer is full of sunshine and the summer heat is connected.
There is dew in autumn, cold in autumn, frost falling, snow in winter, snow in winter, and cold in winter.
The two festivals of each month are unchanged, with a maximum difference of one or two days.
In the first half of the year, it was 621, and in the second half of the year, it was 823.
Twenty four seasonal songs
At the beginning of spring, the sun turns and the rain flows along the river;
Waking crows cry, and the skin dries at the vernal equinox;
The Qingming Festival is busy planting wheat, and the grain rain is planting fields.
The goose feather lives in the beginning of summer, and the small full sparrow comes to the whole;
May Festival of awn seed, no cotton in summer solstice;
Light heat is not hot, but severe heat is dog days.
In the beginning of autumn, I was busy fighting indigo and drying tigers in the summer;
White dew and smoke are put on the shelf, and there is no field on the autumnal equinox;
The cold dew is not cold, and the frost has changed the sky.
The beginning of winter is October, and the snow is sealed tightly;
On the fork of the snow river, there is no boat on the winter solstice;
The mild cold enters the December, and the severe cold lasts another year.
The seventy-two days corresponding to the Qingming Festival were the first day of the Qingming Festival when Tongshi began to bloom, the fifth day when the voles turned into bamboos, and the fifth day when the rainbow began to appear.
Seventy two marquis is a calendar supplement used to guide agricultural activities in ancient China. It is compiled according to the geography, climate and some natural scenes of the Yellow River basin. It is based on five days, three seasons, six seasons and four seasons. There are 72 seasons in a year. Each weather corresponds to a phenological phenomenon, which is called "waiting". Among them, plants are supposed to sprout, blossom, and bear fruit;
