Ching Ming Festival (Chinese traditional festivals)
The Ching Ming Festival is also called the Spring Festival, and it is at the turn of Chungchun and Hunchun. It is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the most important festivals. It is the day of ancestor worship and grave sweeping. The Ching Ming Festival of the Chinese nation began around the Zhou Dynasty. It has a history of more than 2,500 years.
Ching Ming was the first name of a solar term. It became a festival to commemorate ancestors and it was related to Cold Food Festival. Jin Wengong set the day after the Cold Food Festival as Ching Ming Festival. In most parts of Shanxi, Cold Food Festival was held on the day before the Ching Ming Festival; Qinshe County and other places were over the Cold Food Festival two days before the Ching Ming Festival; and Qu Qu County also paid attention to Cold Food Festival the day before Ching Ming Festival and the food for the first two days before the Ching Ming Festival.
The Ching Ming Festival is one of China's important “eight festivals in years,” generally around the 5th of the Gregorian calendar. The festival is very long. There are two versions after the 8th and the 10th before the 10th. This is almost within 20 days. Ching Ming Festival. The Ching Ming Festival was originally referred to fifteen days after the vernal equinox. In 1935, the government of the Republic of China decided that April 5 would be the national holiday Ching Ming Festival, also known as the national grave festival.
"Almanac": "On the fifteenth day after the vernal equinox, the Dingzhi Ding is the Ching Ming. When everything is clean and clear, when the cover is clear and everything is clear, everything is revealed. Therefore, the name is given." It is during the good times of spring farming that there is a saying that “before and after Ching Ming, the seeds and melons are sown”.
Ching Ming Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival are also known as the four traditional Chinese holidays. On May 20, 2006, the Qingming Festival declared by the Ministry of Culture of China was approved by the State Council and included in the list of the first national intangible cultural heritages.