Broadly speaking, going to the countryside means going to the countryside, and the countryside can be played at any time of the year, especially in modern life. Therefore, in a broad sense, the outing has little to do with solar terms.
In a narrow sense, outing refers to a fixed activity during the Qingming Festival, so of course it is the Qingming Festival.
From the narrow perspective of going out, why is there a custom of going out during the Qingming Festival? To answer this question, I want to look at the time of the Qingming solar term every year. The annual Qingming solar term, the festival period is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, in short, Qingming is in spring.
Spring is the season after winter, it is a season from cold to warm, and the flowers and trees that have been dormant for a whole winter will burst into full bloom in spring. In the same way, people who have cowered in their coats and cotton pants for a winter are also in urgent need of an activity to relax and stretch their muscles and bones in the spring.
The reason why I chose to go out in the Qingming Festival is because the ice and snow have just melted in early spring, and everything has just begun to recover. Moreover, the temperature in early spring is still relatively cold, so you can't take off your thick clothes and move your hands and feet.
And at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, after the flowers and trees have experienced early spring and mid-spring, they have already been full of spirit, and those who will bloom will spit out the fragrance, and those who can't bloom will also desperately add new green, so lively! The temperature in the Qingming season has already made people take off their polar bear-like winter clothes, such as the crisp warm temperature, smooth the blood circulation around the body, and make people's hands and feet no longer stiff. At the same time, the rigid need of worshipping ancestors during the Qingming Festival can make people put down their farm work without any psychological burden and go to the countryside to see and walk.
All in all, stepping into the Qing Dynasty has become synonymous with Qingming, which can be described as the joint cause of the right time, place and people!