The 2023 Qingming Festival holiday schedule: April 5, 2023 (Wednesday) will be a 1-day holiday without any swaps.
Qingming Festival is also called the Outing Festival. It was first used as a "sacrifice" ceremony for emperors and generals. Later, with the continuous development of the times, ordinary people began to follow suit. The traditional customs of Qingming Festival include: ancestor worship, outing, planting willows, flying kites, shooting willows, silkworm flower festival, and tomb sweeping. Among them, outing, tomb sweeping, and ancestor worship are the most common.
Every year during the Qingming Festival, people will spontaneously prepare some things related to the Qingming Festival. For example, paper money, incense candles, fruit snacks, etc. are used as memorials to express one's thoughts to the deceased. At the same time, I will also make friends with a few friends in my free time and go out for an outing in the countryside to enjoy the breath of spring.
The two major themes of outing and tomb sweeping have been passed down to this day. In addition to being a "festival", it is also a "solar term". Just as Du Mu's "Qingming" said, "It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to die." This poem is the best portrayal of the weather conditions during the Qingming Festival.